I watched this movie while I was spending the night in a hotel during the 1st weekend of August 2016, when my wife was given free 1 night stay at that hotel (as I kept on saying earlier to her, this was definitely 1 of the perks of being husband of a foodblogger LOL). Anyway, this movie was playing in 1 of the cable TV channel in the evening, so it was not the usual premier of a new movie. Since it was the only one that I have not watched before, I chose to spend the next 1.5 hour watching it. In fact, funny thing is I am writing this review in another hotel where we are staying this weekend. What lucky life! Thanks to @yennymakanmulu ...
Brief Story Line
The movie started with a scene where a young girl named Isabelle (Ella Ballentine) was visiting her parents' grave where she took some pictures of the surrounding. There was a lady who was attending funeral in the graveyard and suddenly, a hitman named Sade (Laurence Fishburne - The Matrix trilogy etc) came and started shooting on the lady and her bodyguard. Isabella (who preferred to be called Bird) was hiding in the shadow and took all the pictures while Sade was killing and trying to bury the corpses.
Roger, Bird's aunt's boyfriend came from the car where he was waiting to see why she was taking so long. Sade realized that the girl could be a witness, especially when he saw Bird holding camera. So he killed Roger and tried to capture Bird. Bird ran so fast while being chased by Sade to the nearest house which was occupied by a guy who seemed to be a drunk. The man who was living alone in that house opened the door and was shot in the leg by Sade.
He immediately closed the door and brought Bird inside. He took a shotgun and barricade themselves on the 2nd floor hiding behind a room nearby the stairs. This was the best place with good vantage point to shoot if Sade decided to go up the stairs. Sade realized that he did not have the best option at that moment to go upstairs and kill the man who later on would be revealed as Carter Green (Thomas Jane - Deep Blue Sea, The Punisher etc). It was unfortunate for Carter that his handphone was left downstairs and he had only 1 bullet left in his shotgun. So Sade would start psychological warfare against Carter by doing all he could from threatening, reasoning including trapping him.
Meanwhile, one of the sheriffs was circling around the area and noticed few cars seemed to be abandoned near the graveyard. He stopped by and started to look around and was thinking of going by Carter's house and see if there is anything happening, since it was the nearest house in the neighborhood.
So what would happen to Carter and Bird who were trapped on 2nd floor? Can the sheriff make it on time to help them? Or would Sade be able to fish Carter out, kill Bird and ultimately took the camera with proof of his killing? You can find all the answers by watching it till finished.
End of Brief Story Line
This movie was not so bad as a psychological thriller. As such, there would be not a lot of actions or special effects. The psychological war between Sade and Carter was quite entertaining to see. For a while you could feel the tense scenes where Sade used all his wits to fish Carter out till the very end. However there were not a lot of those scenes.
As the movie progressed, the relationship between Carter and Bird was quite touching as well. I think Ella Ballentine performance as young orphan child who found protection in the form of Carter, the military griefing man was also quite good.
I personally had a so so moment watching this movie. It did not leave me a lot of impression, but it did give me something nice to enjoy for 1.5 hours before I ultimately fell asleep after it was finished. So if you are looking for some time to kill and want to enjoy Laurence Fishburne & Thomas Jane doing a cat & mouse game and fight each other, then you can watch this movie while it is still playing in Fox Movies Premium.
Mike's movie moments rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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