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I like Maggie Q, she's beautiful and tough but she's just so...serious, dour and not very likable in this Bosch spinoff. A theme in many Cop shows where the main character is a woman seems to always be they have to be super tough, emotionally empty, self destructive and hotheaded at times-in other words not very distinguishable from a male cop. When Bosch ended why didn't they spin off a show about his daughter? She was a beat cop, doing a good job, she was tough enough but smart and vulnerable and interesting all at the same time. I would have welcomed a new cop show following her career in the LAPD but we got Ballard instead.

I liked the original film (always liked John Savage), I like Remi Malak but this movie was a flop and its box office numbers support that. Like in the original a code breaker genius who works for the CIA sees his Wife killed by terrorists and wants revenge though he has no spy training to achieve that. Sounds promising right? What's the problem? It's SLOW, it plods along for 3/4 of film with no energy. Remi is a small guy at 5 7" and not very scary but we don't ever even see him bust out in rage over the death of his Wife and how the CIA ignores his demand for justice. Lawrence Fishburne does a good job as Remi's handler but Juliette Nicholson is completely unbelievable as the CIA Director. All in all a wasted effort. If you want a great spy film with some similar themes, all these years later none better than Three Days of the Condor.

I'm a big fan of Richard Aremitage from his work in MI-5 and other projects so he was the main reason I purchased this video. And I have a big interest in WWll stories like this one about a young Jewish boy separated from his Mom who is sent to a concentration camp But neither Richard nor the young actor playing the boy in the woods can save the film from being a painfully slow, near wordless 90 minute cure for insomnia. There isn't much to the story; a young boy left to fend for himself during the Nazis occupation of Poland. The dialogue is minimal and many scenes of the boy in the woods go on and on adding up to nothing. It all adds up to a waste of 90 minutes of your time watching a film you won't likely enjoy.