Non-stop action! Boobs! Explosions! So, it's a typical action flick.
Or perhaps not.
I've seen good action films… This isn't one. Don't get me wrong—the action is pretty well choreographed, and the fights are decent. There's just no glue holding the pieces together. What we have here is a film based solely on various iterations of "Wouldn't it be cool if ____?" Half the stuff that happens in the fight scenes has no strategic value. Characters make stupid choices every five seconds, in the service of making Cool-Looking Stuff happen.
Do we know why Reed suddenly started killing cops even though he is one? Nope.
Were we shown how Nick survived the helicopter explosion? Of course not.
Hell, the only explanation I could come up with for how Reed even beats Nick to Cambodia is… teleportation/magic/deus ex machina, because apparently he somehow finds out where Nick is going far enough in advance to warn the Thai police dudes that he's coming, show up, meet them, and head back to the airport to intercept Nick 20 minutes after landing. The whole thing is a giant plot hole.
Ugh… Action is great, but it's just meaningless eye candy if you don't tie it together with a somewhat reasonable story. This film didn't do that. This film didn't even tie all the action shots together without breaking continuity.
4.4/10
Shout by JediBlockedParent2018-01-18T22:22:25Z
I give it an overall 6 - Fair for the action, but kicked it up to an 7 - Good for the storyline awareness on human trafficking.