lor_ This minor action film aims higher than most, causing it to fail more obviously. The script poses a vast conspiracy that is supposed to give the story some importance, but is very poorly developed and resolved.Most annoying to me was the haphazard construction of the story arc and its hanging plot threads, as badly handled as I've seen in ages. The two main characters: cop Flanery and Amazonian FBI agent Loken are dropped from a long stretch that focuses on the political subplot and bad guy, then reinserted for action sequences. Then near the end the star Flanery is lost completely with no explanation as the film's continuity deteriorates miserably. Tacked on ending focusing on Loken for the usual "sequelitis" prospect of a follow-up feature betrays a possibly unfinished film project here, also hinted at by the placement of the director credit mid-way through opening credits, and listing as a director the IMDb-listed second unit director Jeffrey Robinson.

emyredrock Where should i start, well while at the beginning the movie looked as it was gonna be interesting, i soon realized how mistaken i was. As i ventured to watch trough it, i could see bit and pieces missing! No clue if this is the director first movie or the guy was on pot or something else, clearly the movie has faults and lack in consistency, I am talking about crucial details that would have made the difference and explain about characters and storyline. Also some of the actors were terrible and some characters they die right away with no introduction, or they simply disappear with no explanation (es:the woman the main character John Archer was "seeing"). But the most annoying part was that the lazy "cheapo" director, didn't bother to shoot those interesting scenes in which we get a clue, about somebody or something mentioned by one of the characters. For example, at some point we meet John Archer's mother who mention his brother' murder, but they never gave any flashback about his story. Then at one point John and her partner go to a boy house and they are looking some evidence, a digital footage, well the director never showed that to the viewers i practically had no idea what they were looking at.. Arghhh What a waste of time seriously, and so frustrating, the whole movie was like dull, then at the end the main protagonist is said to be suspended by a email and is never seen again, except for the woman in the end, when she gets a new assignment; so to me is not clear what happened, where she was, with who!SMH I can go on and on, but i think you guys get the drift. Just walk away..I can't believe that Sean Patrick Flanery , Kevin Dobson and Morgan Farchild have wasted their talent into this pile of crap!Totally painful.

kilarii I am watching this movie thinking great start some intrigue we have a mayor under pressure and he gets whacked. Suddenly the body counts start racking up as fast as in Hot Shots part deux.The characters are 1 dimensional, you never really care for them, Agent Driver is meant to be the hottie who loves kicking butt and taking names, how she goes to being vulnerable and a cheerleader of archer to being assigned a case by Brazilian CIA is well mind boggling, Archer is a broody detective, with a love for a hooker and you never really get to understand his drive, his mother is in bed apparently terribly sick yet looking more glamorous than the female lead.Nothing ties together, the two agents have no real chemistry so how they end up hooking up is beyond me, the Illuminati angle is a stretch at best as suddenly the protagonist loses his grapefruits and looks pathetic at the end as he is finished on a cheap cars windscreen, all you keep thinking is get out of the way that car is not quick enough! He could have lit a cigarette got half way through and still seen the car coming. So you never empathize with him or care. Archer mysteriously disappears with just an email seeing he's out and the shoot out at the end comes from no where and by a coastline.From my review you're probably thinking is not coherent well my friends that is because the film isn't. This film was made by a director clearly who has some sanity and knowledge of how to tell a story, but comes across as susceptible to cocaine psychosis with delusions of epic grandeur! Couple of hours of my life i will never get back watch Max Payne instead!

esquinton I wanted to like this movie. I watched it till the end. I found it to be extremely lacking in continuity. Even the ending left me with a what the heck look on my face.This movie clearly tried too hard to surprise the audience and by the end none of those surprises made any sense.Where was the darkness? Where was the power? What was the big mystery? All those questions are pretty much answered by the time the second assassination takes place... and at that moment you find yourself HOPING that it isn't so, that there HAS to be more.I give it a 4 out of 10 simply because Kristanna Loken is in it.