As punishment for bullying/ fighting (not his fault) in school , Kenny (Michael Rainey Jr) has to go on a Ride-Along with officers: Mike Chandler (Nicolas Cage) and his brother-in-law partner officer Steve MacAvoy (Dwayne Cameron). Meanwhile bad guy Tre (Ori Pfeffer) and his guys are about to rob a bank and Mike notices a suspicious black SUV parked in the red zone near the bank. Here we go. Oh, 211 is police code for a robbery.
This starts out in Afghanistan and we see money being transferred to various banks around the world and to the US, but Tre and his crew were never paid and decide to rob that bank when they get home. So that is why the bank is being robbed.
We will see one of the bloodiest standoffs between the robbers, police and SWAT. There was an attempt to humanize things or make it more real by Kenny's mom concerned about her boy on a Ride-Along; the waitress in the restaurant where the bomb was planted to act as a diversion so the police would go there and not to the bank; Sophie Skelton as Lisa, Mike's estranged daughter who just found out she is pregnant.
Another notable: Alexandra Dinu as Interpol Agent Rossi, who helps give some clues to the police and she was in Afghanistan and knows how Tre and his men operate.
Cage plays a good part but his IMPERSONATORS didn't have much to crow about. Too bad. Maybe next time. (Well, wait a minute. What about that time that Mike shouts that his son is dead?) That refers to his son-in-law partner being shot. Okay, maybe they can use that somehow.
We do see some very exciting explosions where cars are lifted way off the ground.
So with all that going on the pacing was excellent and the story never dragged. (7/10)
Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Humor: Not really. Language: Yes. Rating: B
This starts out in Afghanistan and we see money being transferred to various banks around the world and to the US, but Tre and his crew were never paid and decide to rob that bank when they get home. So that is why the bank is being robbed.
We will see one of the bloodiest standoffs between the robbers, police and SWAT. There was an attempt to humanize things or make it more real by Kenny's mom concerned about her boy on a Ride-Along; the waitress in the restaurant where the bomb was planted to act as a diversion so the police would go there and not to the bank; Sophie Skelton as Lisa, Mike's estranged daughter who just found out she is pregnant.
Another notable: Alexandra Dinu as Interpol Agent Rossi, who helps give some clues to the police and she was in Afghanistan and knows how Tre and his men operate.
Cage plays a good part but his IMPERSONATORS didn't have much to crow about. Too bad. Maybe next time. (Well, wait a minute. What about that time that Mike shouts that his son is dead?) That refers to his son-in-law partner being shot. Okay, maybe they can use that somehow.
We do see some very exciting explosions where cars are lifted way off the ground.
So with all that going on the pacing was excellent and the story never dragged. (7/10)
Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Humor: Not really. Language: Yes. Rating: B