A film didn’t presented itself as good since announcement. Plot’s conception was ridiculous for me. I learnt on eponymous book and it perceived as a common story, which was part of seemingly intended to be series. An ordinary commercialism. Maybe, former FBI agent Paul Lindsay who wrote under Noah Boyd would release more than two books about Steve Vail if not tragedy in blood cancer. More than week ago, I began reading of The Bricklayer and ended after a first chapter. It was common from beginning. Two robbers want to take bank, but they will be stopped by a man who has a regular job and who will disappear mysteriously after coming of police. I turned to the last page and it had same generic. However, to that time materials of flick production made to assume that the film will have deviations from original composition. It’s indeed.
A project was announced in August 2011 by Millennium Media with Gerald Butler in lead. It didn’t move further until January 2022 when was announced that Aaron Eckhart will take role of main personage whereas Butler and his company G-BASE stay as producers only. It’s unknown how many drafts had screenplay, but there was much time for make an elaborated one.
And it’s brilliant. An intricate, logical in everything and gripping in revealing of every another detail. That idea with blackmailing to which was my concern is reasonably explained. A script has seen before elements as a protagonist who was a CIA agent in past gets job offer from the Agency, which he doesn’t accept until personal circumstance forces to swap mind, but they innovatively demonstrated and whole plot, as I wrote, is intricate. It doesn’t bring to think on this familiar. Because I see story and I sense characters who are thoroughly developed. And I love these few jokes, which saying realistic between personages.
In a few moments, but they are not for bothering. All cast acting does perfect. Aaron Eckhart is authentic in putting bricks that I would hire him if I wanted to build chimney as well as he makes to believe in his skills of CIA operative. I knew about Nina Dobrev, but I never saw a movie with her. I was amazed from her demonstration of every feeling, which in myriads, of her personage what can see in performers under forty exceptionally.
Renny Harlin is inventive and amazing in narrating. He stages extraordinary action scenes of all kind, which were incredibly edited and I always felt their life. Director and this screenplay do wonderful by making to see vulnerability of main characters. Certainly, this grandiose action wouldn’t be implemented without divine cinematography by Matti Eerikainen and Walter Mair composed living and original score – I stayed on credits for listening unusual but interconnected combination melody.
I would wish that people on party react on that one guy beats bunch of security in different cruel ways instead continue to dance. Of course, maybe, I don’t understand entity of dancing. However, I can accept this too.
Whereas I can’t take when in this club two times had a security came with pistol on Aaron Eckhart’s hero for be deprived of it and get many hits. This a couple of action scenes are underdeveloped. It would be reasonable if they hold not armed weapon, because it’s function is other, or Steve Vail would throw something in them.
That also wouldn’t be unsolvable and, moreover, Millennium Media has studio in Greece and filming was in this country. A native speech hears in the movie, but a Greek leader speaks English in front of nation.
It’s a beautiful flick by that it has no anything far ideological and almost without of political correctness, which in Ilfenesh Hadera whose personage isn’t on right place (it would a disastrous misfire to appoint a black woman on post of chief of station in orthodox white Greece.) and added scriptwriter in woman Hanna Weg was for creation of variety. However, “Old-fashioned”, as this can say today, still fits for definition. Renny Harlin directed colossal since Driven. This movie for watching in theater.