Cast : Dwayne Johnson, Alexander Ludwig, Anna Sophia Robb, Carla Gugino
Genre : Action, Science fiction
Rating : Quite entertaining
Pic : wikipedia.org
Synopsis:
Jack Bruno (Dwayne Johnson) is an average cab driver down town Las Vegas, until one day he meets alien siblings Seth (Alexander Ludwig) and Sara (AnnaSophia Robb), they give him a bundle of cash and tell him to go as soon as possible to one direction. While driving, some government agents pursue and try to catch them. Seth, whose ability is to penetrate any solid object move out from the running cab, standing in the middle of the street and crashes pursuer's car without even moving. Having succeed to escape from their pursuer, the siblings tell Jack to stop in front of an old ragged house.
The siblings enter the house, several minutes after Jack decides to follow. The house is quiet and abandoned, Seth and Sara are hiding behind a sofa when Jack shows up, they warn Jack to be very quiet. Seth leads the way, is entering some secret doors and exit to unusual place. A minute after Sara takes whatever they need to have, a fire attacked began. It's Siphon, an assassin whose mission is to eliminate Seth and Sara. Succeed to escape, Jack brings the siblings in a bar to refresh, and Sara explain that they come from a distant planet, sent by their parent to take their parents experiment results which contain lots of information about the earth, it will help them to save their dying planet without attacking and invading the earth, since the government of their planet is meant to do so. Not so long after, the agents show up and ask Jack to surrender, with the help of a waitress they escape from the ambush.
Jack decides to go back to city and meets one of his passenger, Dr. Friedman (Carla Gugino) at UFO expo and with her help, they will find the siblings' aircraft.
Comments:
The film is a mix between a family drama and action, well you can't expect Dwayne Johnson to play pure drama right? ^_^. Interesting, with easy to guess plot. I think if the government agents were made even more aggresive like you saw in the matrix or bourne identity, it will add some thrill in the movie. Anyway, it's quite entertaining for a weekend movie and if you want to see something light and a little bit of thrill.
Fun facts:
The siblings enter the house, several minutes after Jack decides to follow. The house is quiet and abandoned, Seth and Sara are hiding behind a sofa when Jack shows up, they warn Jack to be very quiet. Seth leads the way, is entering some secret doors and exit to unusual place. A minute after Sara takes whatever they need to have, a fire attacked began. It's Siphon, an assassin whose mission is to eliminate Seth and Sara. Succeed to escape, Jack brings the siblings in a bar to refresh, and Sara explain that they come from a distant planet, sent by their parent to take their parents experiment results which contain lots of information about the earth, it will help them to save their dying planet without attacking and invading the earth, since the government of their planet is meant to do so. Not so long after, the agents show up and ask Jack to surrender, with the help of a waitress they escape from the ambush.
Jack decides to go back to city and meets one of his passenger, Dr. Friedman (Carla Gugino) at UFO expo and with her help, they will find the siblings' aircraft.
Comments:
The film is a mix between a family drama and action, well you can't expect Dwayne Johnson to play pure drama right? ^_^. Interesting, with easy to guess plot. I think if the government agents were made even more aggresive like you saw in the matrix or bourne identity, it will add some thrill in the movie. Anyway, it's quite entertaining for a weekend movie and if you want to see something light and a little bit of thrill.
Fun facts:
- It's a remake film, the original film is played in 1975
- Jack's cab number is the same with the original film in 1975
- imdb.com