Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Writers: Eric Basnard, and Maurice G. Dantec
Producers: Alain Goldman, and Mathieu Kassovitz
Starring: Vin Diesel As Toorop, Michelle Yeoh as Sister Rebeka, Melanie Thierry as Aurora, and Charlotte Rampling as High Priestess(IMDb). Rated Pg-13, 90min.
Toorop is eating his dinner and he is interrupted by highly weaponized men in black who capture him to meet a mob boss who recruits him to transport a girl to the united States who is of great importance to a religious group's (Neolite) high priestess. While transporting the girl Toorop discovers her true identity.
Considering my attitude before watching this film, the advertisement was not misleading. This film was advertised as an action film, and an action film is what I saw. The action sequences were not groundbreaking, but they were entertaining, and Vin Diesel did well in his usual role as a "bad ass". It seems like the dialogue was centered around him.
The story was great but the plot fell apart all the way at the end, and that is the point the movie's potential became non-existent. The ending was anti-climactic, inclusively, the entire falling action was a car chase that did not lead to an impressive ending, and it was an ending that left major aspects of the story unresolved. Regardless of the troubles the story and the plot had at the end of the film, if you wanted to see an action movie you got one. According to metacritic.com the film received generally bad reviews, and Rottentomatoes.com gave the film 2 fresh tomatoes to 38 rotten ones thus far. I' ll grade this movie a C-. Stay Tuned, movieporium.blogspot.com.
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