This should have been much better, good cast, decent acting, but badly put together, and with the Worst sound staging I've ever heard in a "proper" movie ..

Very much a tale of 2 halves, the production, and production values are fine, top tier as you would expect from a seasoned cast & production...

But then when it came to the post production editing/sound boarding and the nuts & bolts of putting something like this together, it was rushed and thrown out the door... Studio problems, a Hard deadline, I dunno, but it was done very poorly, imagine doing a job for the first time, once it's done your proud and happy of what you made, then years down the line, once you've really learned your craft, you look back at it and can't believe how bad a job you did compared to how you would do it today...

That's how I felt watching this.... Started by a top dollar production company, then put out the door by the local youth club...

It's genuinely interesting to watch just for the flaws, and to try to figure out where it went pear shaped ......

Action movie with average cast, good photography, great stunts, unusual location (Thessaloniki, Greece), good music and some nice dialogue (here and there).

Script, alas, had some really annoying aspects... for example: who would like to watch a man in his 50s, alone, defeating with his bare hands 30 thugs, most of them armed, one after the other, in a same scene?

Movie reality is cinematic, ok... but there are rules nonetheless: I'd say that 2 thugs should be the edge of 'realism', up to 5 you must be funny, plausible and it remains however debatable, 6 is reserved for James Bond and higher figures definitely require superheroes.

Another (violated) rule of mine says that a thug easily defeated in a previous scene cannot have such a come back and beat you to a pulp in a following sequence... anyway... that said, it was not boring: I reached the end titles in good spirits and it made me kill some time.

And I always liked Aaron Eckhart.

Enjoy.

Victor Radek (Clifton Collins Jr.), believed dead is murdering anti-CIA journalists in Greece and framing it on the CIA who might want them dead. Steve Vail (Aaron Eckhart) is a CIA field agent in retirement as a bricklayer in Philadelphia (The occupation is used later to zero surprise.) He is assigned to get Radek, a man he supposedly killed. First-time field assignment Agent Bannon (Nina Dobrev) is to go with Vail who has been out of the agency for a long time and he is not welcomed in Greece. Once they get in Greece, Vail calls in old favors to help him find Radek as we discover he is part of a back story.

Aaron Echhart was boring in a boring, poorly scripted role. The plot and characters lacked excitement. A film you will forget the moment the credits run.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.