I feel obliged to write this to warn people--hard to understand the good reviews for this dumb boring movie. Maybe because it is about 911?
The story and plot are stupid and full of holes. This movie moves extremely slowly and feeds you no information on what is going on. John Rosow is a NYC cop who lost his wife in 911 (you find this out only about 15 minutes from the end through glacially paced flashbacks)--you know nothing of this (or anything else!) except at the very end. He is hired and paid $500 a day to follow a man named Harold Palmer boarding a train in Chicago.
John Rosow is now an alcoholic private investigator working out of Chicago--he was formerly a cop responding to 911. All the 911 connections don't come out until the very end of the movie. His acting consists of squinting and grimacing as much as possible. The movie tries to create a few words 30s detective macho image--with modern sensibilities (PC stuff)--he is sensitive to children etc...Oh yes he gives back the $500,000 he earns from Palmers wife. What kind of a macho detective is that?! The actor gave it his all but he was hobbled by the above--
Harold Palmer turns out to be someone who took advantage of 911 to disappear. People thought he was killed. His rich wife finds out he is alive and wants him back a lawyer wants him to remain missing as a huge insurance settlement has just taken place. Palmer now works taking abandoned children to a Mexico orphanage run by drug dealers. We learn later his own son was kidnapped and killed.
The movie is filmed in stark sepia faded colors I guess to reflect the ruined lives of 911...
The story is badly written with endless cliché flat lines. It keeps you in the dark...nothing exciting happens..nothing suspenseful...because you don't know what is going on! Oh yes besides the lawyer the FBI are following Palmer due to the drug dealer run orphanage. Wouldn't they squelch the insurance fraud? None of it makes sense. You don't know who is who...who is working for the lawyer? who is calling him on the phone? Worse you don't care after awhile.
If a story at it's core makes no sense (the insurance claim) and the FBI the whole things falls apart. In addition this story is dished out in such a slow and confusing way..
DO NOT WATCH YOU WILL REGRET IT
The story and plot are stupid and full of holes. This movie moves extremely slowly and feeds you no information on what is going on. John Rosow is a NYC cop who lost his wife in 911 (you find this out only about 15 minutes from the end through glacially paced flashbacks)--you know nothing of this (or anything else!) except at the very end. He is hired and paid $500 a day to follow a man named Harold Palmer boarding a train in Chicago.
John Rosow is now an alcoholic private investigator working out of Chicago--he was formerly a cop responding to 911. All the 911 connections don't come out until the very end of the movie. His acting consists of squinting and grimacing as much as possible. The movie tries to create a few words 30s detective macho image--with modern sensibilities (PC stuff)--he is sensitive to children etc...Oh yes he gives back the $500,000 he earns from Palmers wife. What kind of a macho detective is that?! The actor gave it his all but he was hobbled by the above--
Harold Palmer turns out to be someone who took advantage of 911 to disappear. People thought he was killed. His rich wife finds out he is alive and wants him back a lawyer wants him to remain missing as a huge insurance settlement has just taken place. Palmer now works taking abandoned children to a Mexico orphanage run by drug dealers. We learn later his own son was kidnapped and killed.
The movie is filmed in stark sepia faded colors I guess to reflect the ruined lives of 911...
The story is badly written with endless cliché flat lines. It keeps you in the dark...nothing exciting happens..nothing suspenseful...because you don't know what is going on! Oh yes besides the lawyer the FBI are following Palmer due to the drug dealer run orphanage. Wouldn't they squelch the insurance fraud? None of it makes sense. You don't know who is who...who is working for the lawyer? who is calling him on the phone? Worse you don't care after awhile.
If a story at it's core makes no sense (the insurance claim) and the FBI the whole things falls apart. In addition this story is dished out in such a slow and confusing way..
DO NOT WATCH YOU WILL REGRET IT