User Reviews

"When I was your age, I cut through ropes and terrorists with broken fragments of a CD and performed surgery on myself with a dull sandstone." I laughed many times.

Unfortunately, this is not a comedy.

Seriously, some parts of this movie just came off as funny. While it's supposedly an action film, the action is pretty unbelievable. For instance, the bad guys had multiple opportunities to kill the good guys (and the motive to do it with!) and yet for some reason never did it. In fact, the bad guys in general appeared to be very bad at killing, even though they were supposedly paid assassins and such.

The picture is constantly too close to the faces of the actors/actresses. So it can be very hard to watch and get's very confining. Fortunately the actors did reasonably well with it, so my complaint isn't with the acting itself. Any flaws in the acting are pretty much directly attributable to the story, which moved on in typical twisty fashion.

There are also some usual Hollywood style spins. I personally find it difficult to take the terrorists' view on things, but this film did try to essentially sway the viewer's feelings toward the opposition. But it didn't come off very effectively.

***Vintage imported spoilers for your pleasure below*** And the story was good but had many holes. When you find yourself almost agreeing with the bad guys and their diabolical plans, you feel like you've been sort of led astray. Build the pipeline, move the people, they stop fighting and killing because they don't have the land to do it with anymore.

You sick diabolical bad guys! How dare you come up with a good idea! Well, I'm only half joking. Since they killed innocent people to do it they are obviously evil. Still, when the chief villain explained the idea I was like, "Oh. Really? That actually sounds.. great." If they hadn't killed anyone to get there, it would have been quite supportable.

But all in all it was a fun watch, I was not bored.

The film opens in 1988 in the Wakhan corridor, Afghanistan. Daphne (Lisa Kay) works for a war lord and gets into trouble and leaves. Mina (Sofia Black-D'Elia) is her moody daughter at Oxford. Before long bad guys invade their home (early plot spoiler) kill her parents and she ends up talking to MI6. Mina is now being moved around to avoid assassins and gets some self defense training. About an hour into the film, it takes an interesting twist, but the film dragged even during the good scenes. Sofia Black-D'Elia was not strong enough an actress to carry the lead role, one that wasn't well written to begin with.

This is an action film that feels like a drama.

Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.