The action scenes were fun, sometimes with fists and other times with guns and automatic rifles. And there are several 1-on-1 talking scenes that play out as short drama skits designed to draw you in, emotionally or psychologically... but they last for way too long, and some don't hit the mark, in this 2 hour 14 minute long action-drama-detective movie.
Some jarring / inconclusive stuff in the movie:
Near the end, Ben gets shot in the upper chest, and the bullet never gets taken out, and he is fine, less than 5 minutes later [or was it 5 days later? we're not told].
Ben Affleck's character gets the phone number of a hot black chick at a bar, and that goes nowhere.
Ben had a chance to kill the Girl Boss, who has been killing people throughout the movie, but he lets her go... so that she can go find her dead kidnapped daughter?? Or something??
Later, Girl Boss is helped by the good-cop woman Cynthia, whom she brutally beat up and stabbed, to find the coordinates in Costa Rica of the sponsor of the Girl Boss' kidnapped daughter's killer. That's a mouthful, but that's what they did in the damn movie. And Girl Boss finally gest her revenge... off camera, since the scene ends with her picking up a knife and walking after her half-naked male target [the old man had just gotten out of a shower, with a towel wrapped around his waist. And he couldn't be a strong young man that could fight her and kick her ass, because that would make her a Weak Girl Boss and destroy her strong narrative].
The movie also ends before the actually ending, and per the words of the two male leads in the final driving scene, they still had two places left to go.
-Sigh - You may like it, if you watch it on a lazy weekend afternoon. But sorry, I can't recommend this one.






































