Oh good grief I can't believe what a horrible movie Reclaim was. What starts out as a potentially promising Mamet-esque suspense thriller about a couple adopting a child through a seedy agency, turns into nothing but one cliché after another, one stupid, implausible scenario after another, one ridiculous car chase after another. I was literally shouting at this movie, laughing at the illogical actions of the characters. The sad thing is John Cusack actually gives a really great performance here as a bad guy. He's really at the top of his game. But for what? This idiotic, ridiculous premise? Even the happy ending makes no sense when they finally "save" the little girl they were trying to adopt (who was in on the plot all along) and tell her they're going to take her home with them. How? With no passport? With no legal adoption papers? What nonsense. It's just one example of how the screenwriters didn't bother to make sure anything in this film was plausible. Let's give another example of stupidity. The guy's locked in the trunk of a car, banging away, punching and kicking at the inside of the locked hood, as if that's going to help, and this goes on and on, and then suddenly he remembers he has a gun in his sock, so he shoots the lock and of course it doesn't ricochet into his face as it probably would instead it magically opens the locked trunk. So, why was he punching and kicking the hood in the first place if he had a magic trunk opening gun in his sock? Urrgh. What a stupid movie.
Review of Reclaim
