When his father is killed while fleeing from hitmen, young Connor flees into the forest where he falls in with Hannah, a firefighter whose mojo was injured during a forest fire tragedy. Together they must escape not only the hitmen but also the firest fire they started.
Welcome to another curate's egg. Angelina Jolie's Hannah is a tolerable second banana supporting Finn Little as the newly orphaned evidence-bearing Connor. This kid is seriously good, by far the best thing in the film. The plot idea is fine, the danger is plausible, the actions of the improbably Amazonian deupty's wife are nlikely but satisfying, and most of what happens is unoriginal but tolerable.
But the film is built on the threat of the hitmen and Connor and his Dad fleeing them - some effort and time is devoted to setting this up. And then two things happen. One, the hitmen go from being murderously efficient to bumblingly inept. And, two, there is never any real oayoff as regards the maguffin which thrus Connor inharm's way in the first place - without even knowing why and who, you are left to assume that Connor's crumpled and soaked bits of paper will remove him from jeopardy. This is careless screenwriting and devalues the fil significantly, adding a note of dissatisfaction to an otherwise adequate action thriller.
Welcome to another curate's egg. Angelina Jolie's Hannah is a tolerable second banana supporting Finn Little as the newly orphaned evidence-bearing Connor. This kid is seriously good, by far the best thing in the film. The plot idea is fine, the danger is plausible, the actions of the improbably Amazonian deupty's wife are nlikely but satisfying, and most of what happens is unoriginal but tolerable.
But the film is built on the threat of the hitmen and Connor and his Dad fleeing them - some effort and time is devoted to setting this up. And then two things happen. One, the hitmen go from being murderously efficient to bumblingly inept. And, two, there is never any real oayoff as regards the maguffin which thrus Connor inharm's way in the first place - without even knowing why and who, you are left to assume that Connor's crumpled and soaked bits of paper will remove him from jeopardy. This is careless screenwriting and devalues the fil significantly, adding a note of dissatisfaction to an otherwise adequate action thriller.