Synopsis:
The movie start up with a man named as Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington) who checks into a hotel room in Roosevelt Hotel with a window view. After checking in, Nick orders a champagne and a breakfast. After finishing it, he carefully cleans all the fingerprints in the room and proceed to climb onto the ledge of his hotel room. When the people in the street saw him, they presume that he is going to commit suicide and subsequently call the authorities. An officer in the scene, Jack Daugherty (Edward Burns) decided calm Nick from jumping but Nick demanded that Jack finds Lydia Mercer (Elizabeth Banks) to be his negotiator else he jump. We found out that Lydia is a police officer in-charge with suicidal negotiation but had an incident gone wrong and feeling self-guilt and depressed. During also this time, we are shown the events before his coming over to the ledge. Nick was a police officer who is found guilty of abscond a $40mil diamond from a property businessman, David Englander (a very thin Ed Harris) but he always maintain his innocence that it was a set-up and Englander is the person behind the thief so that he can claim insurances due to his failing business. Nick escapes from prison when he was granted special visit to the cemetery to visit his late father. The movie panned back to the current time frame where Nick's younger brother, Joey (Jamie Bell) and his girlfriend, Angie (Genesis Rodriquez) sneaks to the next building that Nick is supposing to jump to break into a vault keeping the $40Mil diamond of Englander. Then, we are shown a tense scenario where Nick is trying to divert the attention of the cops while also using the crowd to camouflage the heist by Joey and Angie. When Joey and Angie finally succeed in getting the diamond, they are caught by Englander. During this time, police got to know that Nick is a convicted prisoner and hell-bent in capturing him. When Englander knew of his identity, he dispatch his corrupted officers, his old partner Mike Ackerman (Anthony Mackie) and Dante Marcus (Titus Welliver) to kill Nick. Feeling remorse, Ackerman tries to protect Nick but was shot by Marcus who is subsequently killed by Lydia. Upon seeing Englander trying to escape with his diamond, he managed to jump on him and shows the crowd that he is innocent by showing the diamond. Finally, Nick is drop of all charges and reunites with his brother and girlfriend together with his supposedly deceased father and Lydia.
Review:
I didn't know the storyline when i decided to catch his movie before it hits the theater nor the movie trailer. In the end, it turn out to be a very good, entertaining and non-stop excitement movie. I didn't expect this movie to be that good especially when the movie title is so lame but it really hit me hard. The movie is never dull and we are forced to think if Nick is going to jump or not going to jump. His character has not much things to do apart from being on the ledge for most of the movie but somehow, the director is able to pump up the intensity with the diamond heist. The storyline isn't all that great and there are some loopholes everywhere in the movie but it didn't stop the movie from being a fun roller-coast movie. Definitely worth the ticket money to watch 2 good movies back-to-back (the other being Chronicles)
Verdict:
I give this a 4 star out of 5
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