Alvin Sanders, a fast-talking street punk, is on his way to prison when he's stuck in a holding cell with a dying man who has a $43 million secret. He knows where stolen gold is hidden.
With his last breath, he tells Alvin something that makes no sense to the US Treasury agent, Clenteen, who soon interrogates Alvin.
Eighteen months later, Clenteen wants to find the robbery's mastermind, an elusive computer genius named Bristol.
He lets Alvin loose, as bait. As Alvin tries to change his life, he becomes an unwitting pawn caught between the murderous Bristol and the uptight, hard-nosed Clenteen....
The first you thing you notice about this film is that it comes across as the poor mans Enemy Of The State, from the one sheet, right to computer geeks. And the second thing you notice is that right after Pastorelli dies in the film, the film falls flat on its face, and goes from watchable, to joke worthy.
Foxx was in the mode of trying to be too funny and too likable at the time of its release. Everything he does After Collateral, he is watchable, tolerable, even endearing, but in this, Booty Call, and Breaking all the rules, he's too smug, too annoying, and eventually someone you couldn't care less about.
Morse is okay, but you see his character in every hard nosed agent from 1993 to 2005, and Hutchinson isn't t a very good villain.
The story and narrative is poor, and the best thing in this is Pastorelli, and he dies 15 minutes in.
I wouldn't bother.
With his last breath, he tells Alvin something that makes no sense to the US Treasury agent, Clenteen, who soon interrogates Alvin.
Eighteen months later, Clenteen wants to find the robbery's mastermind, an elusive computer genius named Bristol.
He lets Alvin loose, as bait. As Alvin tries to change his life, he becomes an unwitting pawn caught between the murderous Bristol and the uptight, hard-nosed Clenteen....
The first you thing you notice about this film is that it comes across as the poor mans Enemy Of The State, from the one sheet, right to computer geeks. And the second thing you notice is that right after Pastorelli dies in the film, the film falls flat on its face, and goes from watchable, to joke worthy.
Foxx was in the mode of trying to be too funny and too likable at the time of its release. Everything he does After Collateral, he is watchable, tolerable, even endearing, but in this, Booty Call, and Breaking all the rules, he's too smug, too annoying, and eventually someone you couldn't care less about.
Morse is okay, but you see his character in every hard nosed agent from 1993 to 2005, and Hutchinson isn't t a very good villain.
The story and narrative is poor, and the best thing in this is Pastorelli, and he dies 15 minutes in.
I wouldn't bother.