I wrote almost because this could have been a big hit except for the writing, the casting and the acting. First let me tell you how this would have been a hit switch the action hero from Dolph to Natalie Burns ! This would have been a great movie that empowered women and at the same time been a movie everyone male or female that likes action movies would have enjoyed. The writing was awful a seasoned veteran agent takes down two guys he knows there at least 20 more does he take their rifles and ammo ? Does he check for ID ? Does he take a radio so he can hear what they are saying ? No to all of these and more in one scene he rescues a guy and there are two men literally laying at their feet do they take their weapons ? No i don't care if your not military trained, police trained etc.. If armed men are trying to kill you the first thing you do is arm yourself. In another scene the leader of the "bad" guys and his right hand man are a few feet away from Dolph does he shoot no because he only has a pistol. Fast forward there are a half a dozen guys crossing the lawn he shoots with his pistol and only gets one and one of his men trapped down. Both situation even someone who was not a good shot could have fired and automatic rifle and taken out the "bad" guys see where i am going with the bad writing. I don't want to go thru the whole film that would take to long but Dolphs fight scenes were awful they were slow and he looked his age. Now Natalie's character shows up a couple hours after this started and she takes out more bad guys in the first 15 minutes than Dolph did the whole movie. Her character dis-arms a bomb but again this scene was terribly written. They don't give any dialogue for her to say this was luck and had her wait until there was literally 1 second left. In the military we never ever have had a bomb wait until 1 second left to disarm again this is suppose to be believable. In the beginning they showed this team working another case that would have been the time to add her characters ability to dis-arm bombs it would have tied in so nicely together. Recap bad movie but if who ever owns the rights to this re-made it with better writers and Natalie as the star you would have a hit movie. This would not be a movie we they try and force a woman as the star just to be P/C This would be a great action movie that happens to have a woman as the star. I hope they think about re-writing this and having Natalie Burn's as the star she was the one bright spot in the whole movie.
Review of Hard Night Falling
