while Guy Pearce is typically superb as the hero, the film itself is otherwise utterly unremarkable. The combination of stiff, overwritten dialogue and flatly functional action sequences wastes a good lead performance
there are no exciting moments for the viewer to cheer it on or connect with the character in any meaningful way. It's just another boring scene... It's just unequivocally tedious
Guy Pearce's acting shows he's put in the 10,000 hours... and the performances of the rest of the cast shows that they have not. The script isn't sophisticated; Progress comes in small doses of evolution
by Robert Kojder [Flickering Myth ]
