Some action movies spend way too much time milking the set up of a weak script before the explosions and the stunts finally kick in. All that matters is "how are we going to get in" and "how are we going to get out" and the magnificent twists and turns that follow. Forget the love story, forget the corruption at IMF, forget the plot entirely. At least they made Monaghan a doctor, so we know she's smart, even if she's so naïve she thinks her husband works for the department of transportation. They would have to spend the last year of filming at home, bound and gagged in the kitchen. Keri Russell and Michelle Monaghan spend most of this movie tied to a chair. The wide-eyed innocent who becomes the villain's prize and the hero's salvation. On the other you have Keri Russell in a part we've seen too many times in this kind of movie. On the one hand you have Bahar Soomekh, an unknown actress who kicks ass and takes names on par with the bad boys, Cruise, and Ving Rhames. He doesn't breathe the same air as this cast, not even Tom Cruise. Standpoint, there was almost a feeling that he was too good for this movie and the actors around him.
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