Arthur Denning (Anthony Hopkins) is the CEO of Pierson Pharmacy which is responsible for the deaths of individuals during clinical drug trial testing, in which they had tampered with results to get the drug approved for testing. Emily Hynes (Malin Akerman) is the young sexy girlfriend and employee of Dr. Denning who is urging him to leave the country. Our protagonist, Ben Cahill (Josh Duhamel) ia a lawyer who works for Charles Abrams (Al Pacino). He wins cases, but has an inside man who can hack files, i.e. doing the wrong thing for the right reason as he justifies it. His wife Charlotte (Alice Eve) is a nurse. Later we find out they lost a child due to a miscarriage. The film opens with Emily going missing, then jumping to one week earlier when Emily contacts her former boyfriend Ben Cahill with Arthur's personal files.
Yes it starts out with a twist, but that is hardly a plot spoiler. There are numerous twists as this thing goes on, twists that don't make sense or have decent clues, but exist for the simple reason as if to say, see how clever we are? I felt the film would have been better if they had left off the last twist or two. Josh Duhamel was deadpan in his role and our two headliners were rather boring, although it was clear Hopkins was trying to play an evil heartless man not named Hannibal. There was enough misconduct to go around with the miscast of Josh Duhamel being the worse.
Bourne girl Julia Stiles did good as a security agent, but she had a minor role.
Guide: F-bomb. No sex (sorry about the plot spoiler). No nudity.
Yes it starts out with a twist, but that is hardly a plot spoiler. There are numerous twists as this thing goes on, twists that don't make sense or have decent clues, but exist for the simple reason as if to say, see how clever we are? I felt the film would have been better if they had left off the last twist or two. Josh Duhamel was deadpan in his role and our two headliners were rather boring, although it was clear Hopkins was trying to play an evil heartless man not named Hannibal. There was enough misconduct to go around with the miscast of Josh Duhamel being the worse.
Bourne girl Julia Stiles did good as a security agent, but she had a minor role.
Guide: F-bomb. No sex (sorry about the plot spoiler). No nudity.