Richard Donner directs Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas and Julianne Moore in this action thriller where rival hitmen square off, based around a spec script from the Wachowskis. 

A horrendously disjointed actioner where four small scale claustrophobic sequences (concieved no doubt to be low budget hair raisers) are given big glossy treatment and therefore come across as flat as month old Pepsi.  Meanwhile the three stars all put in discordant, unlikeable turns, they grate off each other like concrete on chalk. Either the script needed to be opened out even further or focussed in on what made the elongated set pieces work as concieved… but this mid level fudge comes across as boring, confused and a waste of a lot of assembled talent. Everyone is at fault. Duller than a silencer aimed at wet cotton wool. The finale involves a character trapped between floors in a dusty, rotten hole… appropriate.

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