Subpar suspense

Rating: 4/10 (12 June 2019)

Suspense works best when the audience cares about the characters. Gibson spends most of the movie acting angsty. Yes, his character does have good reason to be bitter, but you never see any tenderness at all from him. He gives no comforting words when something bad happens to the kids, and we don't see him doing any general dad things. In fact, each time his kids try to do something, he treats them like they're an annoyance or idiots. Below average child performances don't make this any better. We also never learn anything at all about Phoenix's character other than he used to play baseball. A completely unrelatable cast of characters is my only complaint about this movie, but it's too critical of a mistake for a suspense movie to make.