Not quite the thriller it tries to be, mostly because it all takes place in and around a secret underground bunker. These bunkers have existed since the cold war, and still operate as a means of distributing coded messages to the shady agents of equally shady government departments around the world.
This particular bunker is in South-East England, where John Cusack and Malin Akerman show up every day for their shift - Cusack as an ex black ops guy now relegated to protecting the numbers station and its operator, Akerman.
Their humdrum working lives are disrupted one day when their bunker is attacked by operatives looking to send orders to US agents directing them to assassinate key executives within their own organization. Sounds exciting? Well, it isn't really.
I wanted to like it more, but perhaps it needed a bigger screen - rather than my iPad - and a seat more comfortable than my Delta flight could provide. Whatever, it was still way better than watching reruns of reruns of Friends, or first runs that feel as tired as reruns of How I Met Your Mother.
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