This thriller's hold on plausibility is about as firm as Aussie star Sam Worthington's hold on his American accent.
Worthington plays Nick Cassidy, a disgraced NYPD cop sent to prison for stealing a massive diamond from real-estate tycoon David Englander (Ed Harris). But Nick gets out of prison, and ends up on a 21st-story ledge of one of Englander's hotels, threatening to jump.
While Nick is talked down by a stressed-out police psychologist (Elizabeth Banks), the audience sees that Nick's suicide attempt is a bluff, a diversion as his brother Joey (Jamie Bell) and Joey's girlfriend Angie (Genesis Rodriguez) break into Englander's high-security vault across the street.
Director Asger Leth (son of legendary Danish filmmaker J?rgen Leth) keeps the action moving quickly, in a vain attempt to keep us from noticing the chasms of illogic in Pablo F. Fenjves' screenplay.
The bright spot is Banks, who takes her cliche of a character -- the hard-bitten, hungover cop -- and injects some intelligence and fire into it.
This thriller's hold on plausibility is about as firm as Aussie star Sam Worthington's hold on his American accent.
Worthington plays Nick Cassidy, a disgraced NYPD cop sent to prison for stealing a massive diamond from real-estate tycoon David Englander (Ed Harris). But Nick gets out of prison, and ends up on a 21st-story ledge of one of Englander's hotels, threatening to jump.
While Nick is talked down by a stressed-out police psychologist (Elizabeth Banks), the audience sees that Nick's suicide attempt is a bluff, a diversion as his brother Joey (Jamie Bell) and Joey's girlfriend Angie (Genesis Rodriguez) break into Englander's high-security vault across the street.
Director Asger Leth (son of legendary Danish filmmaker J?rgen Leth) keeps the action moving quickly, in a vain attempt to keep us from noticing the chasms of illogic in Pablo F. Fenjves' screenplay.
The bright spot is Banks, who takes her cliche of a character -- the hard-bitten, hungover cop -- and injects some intelligence and fire into it.
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