McAvoy acting is as ever really good but he's struggling to make any real mark as the script is lacking.
So many interesting details are left hanging.
His background and work is hinted at being involved and then dropped just as quickly. Shame as this really started to make you wonder what was going on? What does he do? Who are these peopke so powerful they can get the highest levels of the Police to shut down investigations? All these are dropped and never mentioned again!? His offices being ransacked in America and hard drives, paperwork etc all confiscated ......why? Never mentioned again.
Absolutely pointless and tragic as it would have made for a much better film if had followed and answered a few questions.
We are left with a simple child abduction ring with no explanation or detail and it goes from one long drawn out scene of walking over terrain to driving in rain to clearly oad out the runtime.
The wife gets hardly any screen time to utilise her acting skills. Her boyfriend acts so odd which isn't explained neither is the fact Ethan (the Son) had no bedroom in the new house?? Why not?
The loose ends didn't work or were ended because didn't know where to go with them in lazy writing or either very badly written red herrings.
McAvoy played it as well as he could. Didn't suddenly become an action hero and fight them all but handled situations realistically and basically just got lucky. Which can happen I guess. The shots of his taking the indirect routes to get to the houses were dragged out and seemingly pointless as his ex got there with no problem.
Massively disappoint film. Especially the ending that just made you feel you'd been cheated.
Lazyily bad writing although good acting, beautiful if dreary landscapes and more questions than answers. In fact was there any answers at all?
Unsure if original was this bad but as same story and director I'm assuming it is......and had even lower feedback scoring.
Avoid.
So many interesting details are left hanging.
His background and work is hinted at being involved and then dropped just as quickly. Shame as this really started to make you wonder what was going on? What does he do? Who are these peopke so powerful they can get the highest levels of the Police to shut down investigations? All these are dropped and never mentioned again!? His offices being ransacked in America and hard drives, paperwork etc all confiscated ......why? Never mentioned again.
Absolutely pointless and tragic as it would have made for a much better film if had followed and answered a few questions.
We are left with a simple child abduction ring with no explanation or detail and it goes from one long drawn out scene of walking over terrain to driving in rain to clearly oad out the runtime.
The wife gets hardly any screen time to utilise her acting skills. Her boyfriend acts so odd which isn't explained neither is the fact Ethan (the Son) had no bedroom in the new house?? Why not?
The loose ends didn't work or were ended because didn't know where to go with them in lazy writing or either very badly written red herrings.
McAvoy played it as well as he could. Didn't suddenly become an action hero and fight them all but handled situations realistically and basically just got lucky. Which can happen I guess. The shots of his taking the indirect routes to get to the houses were dragged out and seemingly pointless as his ex got there with no problem.
Massively disappoint film. Especially the ending that just made you feel you'd been cheated.
Lazyily bad writing although good acting, beautiful if dreary landscapes and more questions than answers. In fact was there any answers at all?
Unsure if original was this bad but as same story and director I'm assuming it is......and had even lower feedback scoring.
Avoid.