Pretty damn good. The premise is so ancient it's creaking around on a zimmer, and they don't attempt to make it feel at all new, even allowing the inciting incident to be pure happenstance, but once you get past that it's a rather high quality B movie; bodies hit the ground almost immediately and it doesn't let up. The shaky cam isn't used at offensive levels, the fight choreography is gorgeous, the strange criminal underworld rules are developed to a degree where I thought this might actually be based on a book, and Ian McShane (no context needed for that last one. Just Ian McShane.)
The casting was probably the highlight. The characters found the right actors pretty much the whole way around. For people who have seen it, the hotel attendant had a somewhat eerie presence in his scenes and I had trouble putting an exact name to it. The writer didn't. The dude was called Charon.
I can't say much about Keanu. I think he has a limited range, but within that range he's always highly watchable. In this film, he's highly watchable. And he's finally starting to look his age. Assuming he's 35.
The casting was probably the highlight. The characters found the right actors pretty much the whole way around. For people who have seen it, the hotel attendant had a somewhat eerie presence in his scenes and I had trouble putting an exact name to it. The writer didn't. The dude was called Charon.
I can't say much about Keanu. I think he has a limited range, but within that range he's always highly watchable. In this film, he's highly watchable. And he's finally starting to look his age. Assuming he's 35.
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