Young women go missing in Minnesota. A serial killer is hunting. Michael Cooper (Ben Kingsley) is a retired judge who turned vigilante after the murder of his family. He uses his protégé Lara as bait to catch sex offenders. Marshall (Henry Cavill) is a world-weary sex crime investigator. He struggles to stay connected to his young daughter. Rachel (Alexandra Daddario) is the new investigator for the unit. Lara gets caught up by serial killer Simon (Brendan Fletcher).
There is a lot going on. It's too many things. I appreciate many of them on their own. It gets to be chaotic when they're all jammed into one movie. Also there are many incidences of bad writing. For example, Simon is being transported in a convoy of vehicles. Yet when that car goes off the road, the other cars are nowhere to be found. This type of bad writing happens again and again. This has to be blamed on writer/director newcomer David Raymond. He could still be a solid TV director. Ben Kingsley with Lara as a vigilante team could be interesting on their own. Certainly, Kingsley would be a great leading anti-hero. On the other hand, I'm still unconvinced by Cavill's acting. His side would be a functional police crime drama by itself. They have Brendan Fletcher doing his version of Edward Norton in Primal Fear. Again by himself, it could be an intriguing performance. Piled on top of each other, all the elements get into the way. This is unnecessarily multi-layered.
There is a lot going on. It's too many things. I appreciate many of them on their own. It gets to be chaotic when they're all jammed into one movie. Also there are many incidences of bad writing. For example, Simon is being transported in a convoy of vehicles. Yet when that car goes off the road, the other cars are nowhere to be found. This type of bad writing happens again and again. This has to be blamed on writer/director newcomer David Raymond. He could still be a solid TV director. Ben Kingsley with Lara as a vigilante team could be interesting on their own. Certainly, Kingsley would be a great leading anti-hero. On the other hand, I'm still unconvinced by Cavill's acting. His side would be a functional police crime drama by itself. They have Brendan Fletcher doing his version of Edward Norton in Primal Fear. Again by himself, it could be an intriguing performance. Piled on top of each other, all the elements get into the way. This is unnecessarily multi-layered.