Smart,good writing, excellent cast

Rating: Null/10 (18 January 2012)

The movie opens brilliantly, and within the first three minutes if not less has your attention. If you started to watch for some background noise, you will be happy that this is a movie that will not allow you to back burner it, it will grab you in the opening.
This is a mature film, not put together without intelligence, which is what Hollywood has mostly churned out. It is a suspense movie, which does not have CGI or explosions with every camera frame. Sometimes with suspense movies, the director or producer, or casters, will hire one or two big actors, and you can immediately, within the first half hour (depending on the movie, sometimes sooner) , know already who the 'bad guy' is. With this movie, every other actor is a familiar face and name and the movie will circle around these same actors, so you will not know the guilty party or 'bad guy' till the very end, when they are supposed to be revealed to you.
Gary Oldman, really sets the pace in this film rather than the movie setting the pace; in some movies, you know the end is coming or the bad guy will die soon or what not, simply because the movie starts to rush, the music speeds up, the camera frames start flash faster, when the 'timing' is about to peak, but, here, Gary Oldman, sets the pace, the movie almost tries to rush at one particular scene, but when the camera is on Gary, he controls, he moves so purposefully, every word that comes from his mouth feels as though he had been thinking about what he would say and he will not be rushed when he speaks, also, his every motion, he moves with purpose and meaning, everything is calculated.