The best part of this movie was before it even started: After the trailer for yet another dreadful Gerard Butler movie (Bounty Hunter), Amo muttered "he just goes from strength to strength".
However, I digress.
Heaven knows what the film's title had to do with the wafer thin plot, and heaven also presumably knows how something so slow can be marketed as a thriller.
Aside from a couple of just-for-the-shock-value moments (cars appearing as if from nowhere to mow someone down, guns being pulled quick as you like to shoot some unsuspecting bad guy or 3), the film's pedestrian pace - as Mad-as-hell-Mel searches for his daughter's murderers without doing much real sleuthing - had me glad the seat wasn't any more comfortable.
Apparently not a patch on the original 1986 TV series, starring Bob Peck and Joanne Whalley, as that production won a slew of BAFTA Awards, and this 2010 version won't win diddleysquat.
Would have got a RANT, but Pavey said she really enjoyed it, so it gets an average REVIEW.
Look out for a new and separate Mrs. Page blog, seeing as I don't like being edited.
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