Of course, if you've seen any of the more visually interesting movies of, say, the last two or three years, let alone of the last twenty, all of this feels like standard action flick fare. There is some action, although not necessarily of the gun-wielding kind. But there's very little drama. A rather substantial failure. Another technically fine exercise in filmmaking that doesn't work as a film.
Cage is burned out.
His brain is just a few stressful nights from extra-crispy. He's been a paramedic long enough to save a few lives and lose a few. The losses are starting to haunt him, literally. The face of one, a teenage Hispanic girl named Rosa, starts showing up everywhere, staring at him. Rosa is both beautiful and dead, but she was once alive, and surviving in this neighborhood.