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A group of officers in a labyrinthine top-secret prison must fight for their lives against Hatchet, a brilliant and infamous high-value detainee. When he escapes, his mysterious and deadly a... Read allA group of officers in a labyrinthine top-secret prison must fight for their lives against Hatchet, a brilliant and infamous high-value detainee. When he escapes, his mysterious and deadly agenda has far-reaching and dire consequences.A group of officers in a labyrinthine top-secret prison must fight for their lives against Hatchet, a brilliant and infamous high-value detainee. When he escapes, his mysterious and deadly agenda has far-reaching and dire consequences.
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It begins with a scene of explosion in Istanbul (in Turkey). But they show the city on the map like it is in Saudi Arabia. Is this done on purpose or do they not know the geography?????
So?
So?
I dunno why some quite good actors (maybe not the absolute first league but decent ones) take part in this endeavour. This movie is not terribly bad, but it is not good also, some very average, generic action/thriller with some bad looking CGI/FX (shooting gun without recoil looks terribly lame for example).
Long story short, if you are abandoned on some desert island and you have absolutely nothing to do - you can try it, otherwise please do anything else.
Long story short, if you are abandoned on some desert island and you have absolutely nothing to do - you can try it, otherwise please do anything else.
One of those very low budget thrillers shot on dark and repetitive sets. They make a lot of these lately and a lot of them have starred Bruce Willis, but this one's a bit different. The setting is a Middle Eastern prison site, where some special ops are struggling to contain a violent escaped prisoner. Monaghan looks the part but isn't particularly impressive as the lead, although Jason Clarke is better and Jai Courtney surprisingly good too. As with usual with such films, the script is underwhelming and the story non-existent, but the various fight sequences are quite physical and have semi-decent choreography too.
A generic, one-location thriller, cheap to make but difficult to excel, this has so many clichés mashed together it hurts to watch.
Twenty minutes are used to build up the big-bad in absentia. Phase two is lock-in with a psychopath, an artificially generated time constraint with no way out. This comes complete with power struggles, traitors in our midst and running around shirtless carrying a gun à la Ripley.
Michelle Monaghan is a decent actress, but Sigourney Weaver she is not, we get an abundance of doubting, shouting and pouting, running through nondescript corridors as the body count rises.
This all plays out to a heavily telegraphed ending, so obvious a blind ten-year old could see it coming. Most disturbingly, the makers naïvely included a massive hook for a sequel that nobody wants or needs.
Twenty minutes are used to build up the big-bad in absentia. Phase two is lock-in with a psychopath, an artificially generated time constraint with no way out. This comes complete with power struggles, traitors in our midst and running around shirtless carrying a gun à la Ripley.
Michelle Monaghan is a decent actress, but Sigourney Weaver she is not, we get an abundance of doubting, shouting and pouting, running through nondescript corridors as the body count rises.
This all plays out to a heavily telegraphed ending, so obvious a blind ten-year old could see it coming. Most disturbingly, the makers naïvely included a massive hook for a sequel that nobody wants or needs.
In first scene woman talking about Istanbul (Turkey) but it showing scenes from Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). I watched this movie cause of cast, director was looking fine but i was wrong. They shot in one place, story is cliche, there is famous actors/actress but movie is bad.
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- TriviaJason Clarke and Jai Courtney both starred together in Terminator Genisys in 2015 and were also both born in Australia.
- GoofsThe film starts with news about an explosion in Istanbul, which is in Turkey. Then the camera starts zooming out, first it shows a city that does not resemble the buildings in Istanbul, and then it keeps zooming out to show the explosion is actually in the western part of the Arabian Peninsula in Saudi Arabia.
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Box office
- Budget
- $15,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $119,089
- Runtime
- 1h 33m(93 min)
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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