This one could have been very good if only they had made the 2 main characters slightly believable.
Sean Bean plays a troubled MI5 guy who walks around corners blind every time and can't beat a 60-70 kilogram law student in a fight. He even tries a choke on a guy in a bomb vest.
Abhin Galeya plays a 31 year old Arab law student who somehow is also Jason Bourne but who can't press a button and openly argues brute force in class. He beats a guy into a pulp in their regular university bar but doesn't get arrested and openly hangs out with a guy who is a known Islamist but is "off the radar". Did I mention he has an alcoholic drug using girlfriend?
All other persons of interest are equally unbelievable but this wouldn't have shown so much if Bean had been more washed up all the time to explain all his many f**k ups and Galeya had been a fit 6 foot yuppie with combat training.
Then there is the torturer/soldier who runs around like an Friday the 13th girl.
The hotel dude who goes up to an masked guy with a gun with an "excuse my sir".
A trained body guard actively puts people between him and his charge by sprinting up the stairs for no reason before f**king up against a shrimp in a fight and getting shot dead in the vest.
The big bad fat guy who doesn't notice his Glock has no bullets (half the weight) and tries to protect himself behind a suitcase full of Semtex, which we are told will explode if hit by a bullet.
Last but not least, disabling the cameras 'to cover' MI5's part. Like nobody goes: "Hey, wait a minute. How come all these cameras were suddenly offline?" And if they wanted the bombings to happen. Why the hell do they send Bean out to stop it? Just put him on suspended leave.
Come on Bean, you've done this often enough to do it right.
6 points for the effort and the proper ending.
Sean Bean plays a troubled MI5 guy who walks around corners blind every time and can't beat a 60-70 kilogram law student in a fight. He even tries a choke on a guy in a bomb vest.
Abhin Galeya plays a 31 year old Arab law student who somehow is also Jason Bourne but who can't press a button and openly argues brute force in class. He beats a guy into a pulp in their regular university bar but doesn't get arrested and openly hangs out with a guy who is a known Islamist but is "off the radar". Did I mention he has an alcoholic drug using girlfriend?
All other persons of interest are equally unbelievable but this wouldn't have shown so much if Bean had been more washed up all the time to explain all his many f**k ups and Galeya had been a fit 6 foot yuppie with combat training.
Then there is the torturer/soldier who runs around like an Friday the 13th girl.
The hotel dude who goes up to an masked guy with a gun with an "excuse my sir".
A trained body guard actively puts people between him and his charge by sprinting up the stairs for no reason before f**king up against a shrimp in a fight and getting shot dead in the vest.
The big bad fat guy who doesn't notice his Glock has no bullets (half the weight) and tries to protect himself behind a suitcase full of Semtex, which we are told will explode if hit by a bullet.
Last but not least, disabling the cameras 'to cover' MI5's part. Like nobody goes: "Hey, wait a minute. How come all these cameras were suddenly offline?" And if they wanted the bombings to happen. Why the hell do they send Bean out to stop it? Just put him on suspended leave.
Come on Bean, you've done this often enough to do it right.
6 points for the effort and the proper ending.