So much average

Purely Joyful Movie!

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Jeremy (Stephen Dorff) is a secret service agent taken captive. He is in a plexiglass box in the trunk of a car for about the entire film. Normally I hate these one man movies of a person being trapped, but this one had enough hope, like a carrot on a stick, to hold my interest. With his wife being threaten as well as other people, Jeremy is being pressured to divulge information about secret locations of the POTUS.Stephen Dorff did a convincing job in this one man thriller and then it happened. The ending. The ending made an improbable but interesting film into a laughter.8 stars if you don't watch the last 5 minutes.Parental Guide: F-bombs. No sex or nudity.

The production of this movie is not bad, we have certainly seen worse. Where this movie fails badly is in the story line. 10 minutes into the movie and you can predict exactly what is going to happen. It´s been done before, many times and much better. To be fair, it is watchable, just, lets say that if you are on a long flight across the world and this is the only movie available to watch then go for it but otherwise, this is one for the bin. Will we be watching it again in the future, highly unlikely.

This film had a budget of half a million dollars yet only made slightly more than for thousand dollars at the box office-in total-if the info I saw was correct. I believe it. I've never seen a more poorly conceived thriller in my life. The main character gets trapped in a small box made from shock proof glass or some similar material and thats the film. Basically all 1:47 is spent in a tiny confined space. It would have been better if the main character had spent maybe ten minutes in a confined space and then onto other things. They could have done that. They didn't. Very disappointing and also very hard to watch for the full length of the movie. There is no explanation given for the motivations of the antagonists in the film-was it money? Was it other things? Who knows. Tom Berenger, who was well known for doing the Sniper movies, was in this film at the end-to little avail-it still sucked as a cinematic experience.There was a hundred ways they could have made it better.

When I watched The Call, a lot of the action took place in the trunk of a car. The same thing in this movie.However, there is a big difference in the two films aside from the fact that one of them featured Halle Berry, a reason to watch a film in itself.In brake, ALL the action takes place in the trunk of a car, and there is no action outside that trunk. You really have to have something special to pull that off, and Stephen Dorff isn't it.Dorff hasn't yet broken out of the circle of MTV, Blockbuster, or Young Artist awards. Despite 72 roles, he has only come on my radar once, and is in only one film one my "must see" list (I Shot Andy Warhol). That is not enough to carry a film like this.I just kept hoping the vehicle would crash so the movie might end.