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A father is without the means to pay for his daughter's medical treatment. As a last resort, he partners with a greedy co-worker to rob a casino. When things go awry they're forced to hijack a city bus.
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Contemporary, grave, classical in form and spare.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Renoon TMDB · Sep 20166/10
> A father's desperate attempt to save his sick daughter! Even though the film visually resembling with 'Speed', the story was completely different and okay kind. It was from the 'The Tournament' director and has a good cast. De Niro playing a small role is a disappointment, but for his age it was not bad. Jeffrey Dean Morgan was good, but as most of the story takes place on a moving bus, it was not a performance based film, just a crime-thriller with some action sequences. The story of a single father who needs a big sum for his daughter's operation. So he decides to rob a casino where he works which actually goes wrong and end up in a bus with the hostages. The casino men and the cops, both are after him, he's certainly got trapped without any option to get away with it is the film that ends with a decent climax scene. When I saw Gina Carano in 'Haywire', I thought she might be the next big thing in the female action star world, but disappointed with how her career shaped up. Even for this film the role was not up to her caliber. The story was the film's strength, but if you are focused you could predict some of the scenes. Really well shot film, the production was good and this
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Cast
- Jeffrey Dean MorganLuke Vaughn
- Robert De NiroThe Pope
- Kate BosworthSydney
- Dave BautistaCox
- Gina CaranoKris
- Mark-Paul GosselaarMarconi
- D. B. SweeneyBernie
- Morris ChestnutDog
- Summer AlticeCristal
- Rosie FellnerJulie
Crew
- Scott MannDirector
- Max AdamsScreenplay
- Stephen C. SepherScreenplay
- Brandon CoxDirector of Photography
- James Edward BarkerOriginal Music Composer
- Tim DespicOriginal Music Composer
- Robert DalvaEditor
- Randall EmmettProducer
- Alexander TabriziProducer
- George FurlaProducer
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