BUT was there any explanation? Any relevance to what was going on? Nope.Īnd that was the main problem. There was a bizarre and surprisingly violent encounter between Jones and Isabel’s brother-in-law. He swaggered around, bumping people off left, right and centre that had nothing to do with Reeve’s investigation or Isabel. She brought nothing to the mix.īig Daddy Kane’s slimy gangster Jonathan ‘Black’ Jones was completely unnecessary. Her character’s unhinged and volatile behaviour made her extremely unlikeable and really bloody annoying. His investigation consisted of grunting, slapping some people about and getting jiggy with his partner’s grieving widow (Mira Sorvino). It was so boring, cliched and full of plot holes. And by then, you wondered why he was in it in the first place? They didn’t even cross paths until the very last frame. It ran completely separate to Isabel’s story. His story line felt it should have been in another movie altogether. A disgruntled detective out on the trail to avenge his murdered partner. His stone cold pallor and incessant mumbling did nothing for his character. What drove Keanu to do this? He was laughable. If it wasn’t for the strange dream sequences and that crazy albino woman, I would have switched off from the get go. The alluring Armas (What?) did her best with the part BUT it just didn’t work. I expected a slow burning supernatural thriller BUT was rewarded (I say rewarded) with a questionable mess that never really got going. I haven’t seen something so dull and disjointed in a long time. The opening was creepy enough as Armas loitered around an empty subway. Fool me once, Eli Roth’s horrendous Knock Knock. Maybe Armas and Reeves shouldn’t work together on a project again. If you were thinking of giving it a go, I would strongly advise against it. If you haven’t heard of this film, then GOOD. Thank God, Reeves has got John Wick to fall on because this coma-inducing effort would have been a career killer. Or so the synopsis would lead you to believe. A bit like this film, really.Ī police detective (Keanu Reeves) investigates the truth behind his partner’s death.Ī case that unearths disturbing police corruption and a dangerous secret involving an unlikely young woman (Ana de Armas).
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