Michael's Movie Grade: C+
Review: Good enjoyable thriller, if unspectacular.
This movie may be predictable and unoriginal, but it is heavily helped by a good performance from Blake Lively and clever film making touches from director Jaume Collet Serra. It is also a fun movie. Blake Lively's performance needs to be good because she pretty much has the whole movie to herself (Ok credit where credit is due, she co-stars with the very talented Sully 'Steven' Seagall). Luckily her performance is quite good. Also helping a lot here is little visual touches like the way we see what's on her phone to the side of her as she's using it, and the clock at the bottom of the screen in an important scene. However despite all this movie is very predictable and it feels like we have seen it before. It is well done here even if not enough for the unoriginality and predictability to be big faults.
Overall faulty but still good movie.
-Michael J. Ruhland
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