Spartan
Val Kilmer plays a special agent in Secret Service who is specially trained and spends some time training upcoming agents, his reputation is well known and he is a brutal man. One day he is called in to help in the investigation concerning a kidnapping of a known politician's daughter, as the investigation brings him to the core he finds out that the case is much more important than he was expecting.
In the start of this movie i really had problems figuring out what was all going on, the movie leads into a million of different directions without really telling us what is going on, without explaining to us why the characters are doing what they do, or why the story even go that way. That is definetely the biggest problem of this movie, the plot itself is very fractured and there are many unexplained sitautions and there were many times where i found myself thinking why that happened and how that was possible, the movie simple feels like it have been either cut down too much, or just poorly constructed in the first place, there can be many reasons for the shattered plot, i'm unable to give a precise answer, but i felt that this was what let the movie down, quite a bit. Also this fractured plot gives a movie with quite some confusion, especially in the introduction. Most of the confusing parts are explained one way or the other later on in the movie, but that still doesn't change the fact that there are just some parts of this movie that isn't explained well enough, and just generally feels cut and rushed. ¨ The directing is definetely not too well here, for me it felt like the directing have tried to pace the movie more than it could handle. Something that makes it feel a little like it skips parts of the movie. I would preffered some explanation and a movie that were 15 minutes longer, because actually the missing explanations are mostly of smaller parts of the movie, but they are very obvious still. Also a movie that is this social realistic should remember to keep the realism as a high priority, how do Val Kilmer finance his expensive trip to Dubai, i couldn't figure it out, how did he become to wealthy?
The acting is quite okay, Val Kilmer isn't the best character actor, but he does an okay job here, it's not extraordinary and outstanding, but it works well enough, rest of the characters of the movie are just there because the story needs them.
Even though the direction and overview of this movie is shattered, it is still quite entertaining, and that is mostly due to the storyline, even though we see the coming too early because the twist appears too early. The movie is still quite enjoyable, and definetely worth watching if you are into a light thriller, because it does have some moments that are remarkable, sadly the movie are unable to receive a top grade because the story is as shattered as it is.
6/10
Val Kilmer plays a special agent in Secret Service who is specially trained and spends some time training upcoming agents, his reputation is well known and he is a brutal man. One day he is called in to help in the investigation concerning a kidnapping of a known politician's daughter, as the investigation brings him to the core he finds out that the case is much more important than he was expecting.
In the start of this movie i really had problems figuring out what was all going on, the movie leads into a million of different directions without really telling us what is going on, without explaining to us why the characters are doing what they do, or why the story even go that way. That is definetely the biggest problem of this movie, the plot itself is very fractured and there are many unexplained sitautions and there were many times where i found myself thinking why that happened and how that was possible, the movie simple feels like it have been either cut down too much, or just poorly constructed in the first place, there can be many reasons for the shattered plot, i'm unable to give a precise answer, but i felt that this was what let the movie down, quite a bit. Also this fractured plot gives a movie with quite some confusion, especially in the introduction. Most of the confusing parts are explained one way or the other later on in the movie, but that still doesn't change the fact that there are just some parts of this movie that isn't explained well enough, and just generally feels cut and rushed. ¨ The directing is definetely not too well here, for me it felt like the directing have tried to pace the movie more than it could handle. Something that makes it feel a little like it skips parts of the movie. I would preffered some explanation and a movie that were 15 minutes longer, because actually the missing explanations are mostly of smaller parts of the movie, but they are very obvious still. Also a movie that is this social realistic should remember to keep the realism as a high priority, how do Val Kilmer finance his expensive trip to Dubai, i couldn't figure it out, how did he become to wealthy?
The acting is quite okay, Val Kilmer isn't the best character actor, but he does an okay job here, it's not extraordinary and outstanding, but it works well enough, rest of the characters of the movie are just there because the story needs them.
Even though the direction and overview of this movie is shattered, it is still quite entertaining, and that is mostly due to the storyline, even though we see the coming too early because the twist appears too early. The movie is still quite enjoyable, and definetely worth watching if you are into a light thriller, because it does have some moments that are remarkable, sadly the movie are unable to receive a top grade because the story is as shattered as it is.
6/10