When it comes to female action stars, there are few and far between when it comes to successful characters that the audience enjoys watching. The teaming of Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson in this thriller works so well that you could have put them together in another film and still would have had a hit. The director of this roller coaster ride is Renny Harlin, who gave us the action films Cliffhanger, Die Hard 2, and most recently The Covenant. With all his films he shows the audience his expertise for complex action sequences that seem to come off as natural as breathing.
After eight years of living under the haze of amnesia, Samantha Caine's former life as Charley Baltimore, a lethal government assassin, starts to take over. Jackson as the tough guy PI just builds more on to his persona but the real surprise is Davis as the government assassin with amnesia, she comes across wonderfully in one of her strongest roles. Once the story gets going it never stops and it seems that each action sequence out does the one that came before and they just get better and better. Some of the sequences that are in the film are a little hard to swallow, but that is what action films are suppose to do, suspend belief in reality for an hour or two.
I was completely surprised by how good this movie was, seeing Jackson as the tough guy was one those things you'd expect, but Davis as the hard as nails killer was far beyond what I had come to expect from her. Davis' character is so strong that she could have gone on from here to do other action films like this one but needless to say what few she did do weren't of the same caliber. This is definitely a movie that shouldn't be missed; it has everything for the action fan, expositions, gunplay and some great one liners, so if you haven't seen it check it out.
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