srdjan_veljkovic Lately, action/thriller movies are full of these strong women who are totally unreal. When this trend started, it was new, thus interesting and, when pushed to extreme, this can be interesting any time (e.g. Kill Bill). But, in general, it's getting old.Here's a movie that gives a believable strong woman. Only once, towards the end, when the authors ran out of ideas, does she show unbelievable strength in a fight with a big guy. Also, she doesn't go towards the cliché of femme-fatale, using her looks to get what she wants.I don't really care if the main character is a man or a woman, but, in current state of affairs, this is refreshing.Other than that, the film is OK. Alice Eve shows she can act and not just look pretty, and the main villain (more of an anti-hero) does his job adequately. Others are not as good, but, not really bad.The story and it plots and twists are a little too much, but OK. It's actually fine until the last part, where, as mentioned above, authors run out of ideas. The last part spoils it a little, but, it's still OK.There is a sense that it could have been at least a little better

Wizard-8 Some people like this movie, while others have found issues with it. As for me, while I wouldn't call the movie perfect, I found myself interested with what was going on right to the end. Yes, there are some nagging questions that are never answered, like why the central female character didn't put her money in a bank, or why she couldn't find a new place to live when she owned a motel. And there are a few unbelievable decisions by the characters - for example, TWO characters each have a scene when they don't repeatedly hit a person threatening them. But despite these problems, there is a lot to enjoy here. The acting is solid, not just by Bryan Cranston but also the no name supporting cast. The story has some good (and believable) twists and turns, enough that I could not predict what would happen at the end. And the production values are good for what had to be a low budget. The movie is 78 minutes of good entertainment. Yes, I know the running time is 90 minutes. That's because the end credits run a whopping TWELVE MINUTES! Still, you don't have to sit through them, so that's a minor quibble.

westsideschl Really accomplished acting especially by our motel owner (If she owns the motel why is she so broke?) Alice Eve as Chloe (popular female film name these past several years) and Bryan Cranston as the Russian bad person (per that stereotype). Engaging creatively written crime thriller with the exception of an over-hyped bad cop and the usual lost illegal money (must be safer ways to transfer money from the US to Canada).Best line (appropriately ending the movie) by 8 year old daughter to mom (meant in a fun way), "Mommy, you're crazy!". Mom replies (also meant in a fun way), "I know." Best stunt double: HHH Duck for Mr. Jones the turtle. I would tell you what HHH stands for but it's a bit x rated.

Larry Silverstein This is not a great movie, nor does it profess to be, but I've seen far worse. It can be a bleak and violent noir, and if one looks too hard beneath the cracks of the plot, you might conclude that a lot of this is not believable. However, it maintained a decent air of tension throughout the film, and I was interested in how it would turn out.Set in upstate New York, it stars two actors whom I like quite a lot in Alice Eve and Bryan Cranston. Eve portrays Chloe, who manages and is part-owner of a seedy motel frequented by prostitutes and drug users. She's in danger of losing custody of her young daughter Sophia (Ursula Parker) to the State, unless she moves her to a more suitable environment.Cranston plays Topo (sporting a terrible foreign accent), who's going blind but acting as a "mule' transporting a great deal of cash to Canada with his nephew Quincy. However, when they get two separate rooms for the night at Chloe's motel, Quincy gets into an altercation with a prostitute and they're both killed.When the police impound Quincy's Jeep as evidence, Topo forces Chloe to try and retrieve the money, which had been stashed behind the radio, or he will kill her daughter. Chloe's partner in the motel is Billy, believably portrayed by Logan Marshall Green, who's a wacko and crooked cop and may have already stolen the money out of the impounded Jeep.From this point, they'll be plenty of murder and mayhem to come. I thought it all ended up in a fairly credible way.All in all, this film, directed by Tze Chen, was a fairly decent escape flick, if you don't mind the violence and can overlook the plot holes.