Trailer
Cast
Toby Kebbell Will
Maggie Grace Casey
Ryan Kwanten Breeze
Ralph Ineson Perkins
Plot
A "storm of the century" hurricane named Tammy is about to hit Alabama hard. A convoy of governmental semi trucks drives to a governmental facility that shreds old dollar bills (thousands to millions at a time). "The shredder has been down since last week" so the amount of money sitting at the facility is much higher than it should be. But the shredder being down isn't a mistake - a group decided to use the massive hurricane barrelling down on the state to take out the power of the building, lower the defenses there and cover their tracks as they escape with $600 million dollars.
Can the agent assigned to protect the money save it from being stolen? Or it is it stolen, can she stop them from getting away with it?
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
2.5/5 - *SPOILERS*
"Ocean's Eleven" meets "Twister" in a half-assed movie. The heist is brought to view from the non-plotters. Suddenly it is "wow, what the eff is going on?". No indication of the heist happening but why the hell would you allow fake computer assistant people into your government facility? Didn't you know anyone could be a hacker if they wanted to?
And the coincidence that the main male lead was even in town for this because he wanted to check up on his brother, whom happens to be the generator mechanic for the facility (so he is hijacked and brought to fix the generator). I'm not kidding - the main male lead could have walked/driven out and it wouldn't have changed much of the dialogue/plot. Sure, Will and Casey seemed to get along great but the "relationship" between them is a mere "I'm in it to save my brother from the bad guys / I'm in it to protect the money" and so they banded together. Did they have much connection aside that? Didn't seem like it. And the ending didn't tell us where that relationship sat so....
Most of the actors were not southern USA and my Mr caught on to that pretty quickly - "that isn't a real southern accent. That's faked."
On the subject of being southern, I found it hard to accept Breeze having so many guns in storage (aside the fact that he should have drowned himself to death from drinking) ONLY because he said "I'm from Alabama". Please, we don't need dummies on movies to justify owning multiple guns.
There were many weather related anomalies in the movie (like the eye of the storm being many many miles across and not moving forward, the clouds of the hurricane eye wall having a "The Mummy" skull face twice during the movie [once in the beginning and once right near the end]) that made this movie inaccurate. Okay, so let's do a "Twister" thing by making the mall into a vacuum, sucking the bad guys out up into the storm and pulling the good guys out (held back from being lost in the storm by climbing equipment?). Umm, not cool, movie.
In all, the movie does keep attention but cheats the viewer out of real "movie body". So they manage to destroy two of the semi trucks that had 1/3rd each of the $600 million and highjack the third, killing the bad guys along the way somehow, but what will they do? No clue. Not even a typed conclusion. Just a "let's stop the bad guys" drive and once that is done, the movie is so bland that it needs a LOT to be worth anything. Give us anything - the agent kissing the main male lead, the brother saying he is moving away, the agent despairing over the lost 2/3rds of the loot that was going to be shredded anyways, or whatever. No conclusive ending aside "well, we saved the one truck and the bad guys are dead". Lame to the max for the ending.
Well, that's my review. Thanks for reading! More reviews are always to come, so keep an eye out for them.
~ Gracie Mae DeLunac
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