Unlocked (I)

Years on from 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,' Noomi Rapace is still ready for action, though this middling thriller lags behind her.

3027d ago

You’re better off watching ‘Homeland’ reruns than ‘Unlocked’.

3027d ago

I suppose this went down easily enough for me because I grew up with this kind of stuff, and can surrender to it as a kind of cinematic comfort food. But still. For those not so inclined, the entertainment value could conceivably be derived from the brisk, no-nonsense direction by Michael Apted, and the talents of what they used to call “an all-star cast”.

3027d ago

If “Unlocked” had just been an ordinary piece of direct-to-video action fodder—the kind of film directed by some anonymous hack and featuring a cast consisting of one or two past-their-prime stars, a starlet or two of no particular distinction and either a wrestler or a rapper—I might have felt a little more forgiving towards it.

3027d ago

Traumatised by a terrorist attack in Paris, CIA analyst Alice Racine (Noomi Rapace) has left the field and is working a desk job in London. Until chatter is picked up revealing that a biological strike on the city is imminent.

3027d ago

Bourne meets The Fast Show, with a cockney accent.

3027d ago

With its dull mixture of indifferently staged exposition and action, it suggests a primitive side-scrolling video game.

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