Review of Stolen (2012) by Mloy X — 07 Jul 2014

Tim Harlend (Danny Huston): As grandma Harlend used to said, love makes time pass, and time is.

Certain to make love pass.

This wasn't as bad as I thought it would be; granted, it's not that good either. Nicholas Cage (who plays Will Montgomery) gave a fairly lackluster performance. I remember a time when Nic Cage won an Academy Award, where has that guy gone? I understand that not every role is Academy Award caliber but at least try not to phone it in, you're still getting paid, right? Josh Lucas (Vincent) was cool and probably the best character in the whole film. Malin Ackerman was the token hottie and was nothing more than just window-dressing, any other eye-candy could have played her part. The story was interesting enough and I have to admit, the concluding caper was pretty clever; but the film was just too drawn out. There were just too many inconsequential events that just slowed the pacing down and made the film a little too boring. Overall, it was tolerable but not worthy of a repeat viewing. Once was enough.