It's probably one of the best films that Nicolas Cage made since a while. Although, it remains an honourable B picture, not a masterpiece. But if you compare it with other movies starring the Coppola's nephew...
The story reminds me a french film from the eighties: LEGITIME VIOLENCE, directed by Serge Leroy. The topic was nearly the same, but without action sequences.
This one is exciting, suspenseful, intriguing, and Guy Pearce is very effective as the bad guy. The sequence where he is "guides" with a cell phone by his "victim" - Cage - as Pearce did himself to Cage in the first part of the film, is delightful. I like the Hunted Hunter scheme, where the victim tortures his hangman.
A real good time waster, till the very last second.
Amazing.
The story reminds me a french film from the eighties: LEGITIME VIOLENCE, directed by Serge Leroy. The topic was nearly the same, but without action sequences.
This one is exciting, suspenseful, intriguing, and Guy Pearce is very effective as the bad guy. The sequence where he is "guides" with a cell phone by his "victim" - Cage - as Pearce did himself to Cage in the first part of the film, is delightful. I like the Hunted Hunter scheme, where the victim tortures his hangman.
A real good time waster, till the very last second.
Amazing.