This movie was truly nonsense. Had the makers of this movie invested even a small sum of money for an actual state department foreign service employee to advise the director on how things work at U.S. embassies this might have been a decent movie. It had a great cast but the director seems have been on vacation. Just a stupid movie and not worth the time.

Run-of-the-mill. Unconvincing. OK for first half hour then premise becomes improbable. Couldn't finish.

A reasonable film, but not full of action, and you have to suspend belief that Kate (Milla) could overpower a fit attacker that surprises her from behind, never mind an aged looking Pierce Brosnan who plays the most incompetent assassin ever seen on the screen, missing killing his target on a number of occasions. The nice point of the film is that it isn't one of these Earth destroying everyone at risk film, just the killing of people at the New York New Year celebrations. Maybe a lot of people, but at least not an over the top, unbelievable scenario. Good for a wet Sunday (unfortunately I watched it on a hot Sunday, but you cannot plan these things). *** Spoilers *** Now for the Spoilers Now I'll mention the Spoilers bit which ruined the film for me because the writers did not truly understand security protocol. When Bill deletes the 5 people that are suspicious, he is supposed to use Kate's details. However any worthwhile secure system will record not just the operator but the time, date and user terminal. As Kate had left the building this would also have been recorded and so she would not be under any suspicion. When Kate accidentally shoots a man in a struggle, she is blamed for the death, but GSR (Gun Shoot Residue) would have been on the assailants hands and again she would not be under suspicion, in fact the Police are more likely want to put her in protective custody. Finally you have an assassin who gets a bomb into a restaurant (and it looks like it is with help of the staff), then detonates it without checking the intended target is even in the building. Seriously?

Stop. Stop the DVD. Stop the stream. Stop the torrent. There is nothing worth watching here other than a waste of acting talent. Instead watch The Shallows. I was lucky enough to have that DVD from the library as well, even though I did not know enough to turn off this crap until after I watched it. Now you know. Spare yourself.There must be a completely clueless elite that produces, writes, and directs atrocities like this. They have no connection to any human behaviors not involving limos and Dom Perignon. They watch other movies and see them succeed. So they make cargo-cult monstrosities like this, aping things like chases and explosion but without understanding. The characters don't behave in any believable way. The "technical" aspects like soldering a blob on a sim card to make a bomb are laugh-out-loud pathetic. Get any tech adviser from his mom's basement and he can come up with something more believable.Some specific objections. It takes an hour to learn what the opening scene in Afghanistan had to do with anything. An ambassador that can order extra-judicial killings in her host country. A high-level chosen-child striver security analysis that has to work the counter. You mind as well make her a heroic DMV clerk. Milla making noises when she is chased that alternate between Frank Zappa's "ice pick in the forehead" and the noises women tennis players make when they hit the ball. We all want to have sex with the nice Croatian girl, but she shouldn't make those noises when she is running for her life. Simple labored breathing would be fine, and probably a lot sexier. About five nondescript middle-aged white guys (NM-AWGs) that I could not tell apart even by the end of the movie. I don't know if the director has a crush on this facial type, but maybe he could cast a few redheads and beards and heaven-forbid, black and brown people. A few more gals might help too. Or just eliminate half the characters.The writer, director, and producer must be some Eloi-class elites that don't know anything about people or things. Maybe they just forgot, we all get old.A lot might have been saved in the editing bay. Open with the art gallery scene, but the owner friend is a guy. There are more straight people than lesbians, sorry, its simple demographics. Then some work boredom. Then the fantastic restaurant explosion. Lose the Afghanistan scene completely. We know there are sociopaths out there, don't remind us when we go to a movie. Also lose the whole McGuffin gas bomb thing. That means all the high-tech gibberish too. Terrorists are stupid savage people. They would use a fertilizer bomb in some unexpected vehicle to kill everybody. Maybe make it a CNN truck so if it blows up or not, its a win/win. Have her save the crowd from that.I was so delighted when a NM-AWG wondered where she would go after the bomb and another NM-AWG said "she will follow Embassy protocol." Gosh where they could have gone from there. Milla pulls out a bus locker key, perhaps from her sweet Croatian vagina. At the locker she gets $20,000, a gun, a passport, and a burner phone. She calls in and now all the good guys know she is on their side. The suspense is having her come in, without getting killed. She would have to have some special info, maybe the after-plastic-surgery appearance of the bad guy. But she gets foiled over and over. So she decides to fly to New York and stop the madman herself, despite just being a mild-mannered albeit sexy DMV clerk.The bones are all there, its just in the arrangement and details that this movie fails so miserably. There was one benefit in watching this dreadful mess. When I did plug in The Shallows, 20 minutes in I got a lump in my throat and jumped up and shouted, "Look everybody, a plot!"