I enjoyed the movie for what it was: a formulaic espionage thriller where Denzel did what Denzel does and Ryan Reynolds complemented him well as a passionate but green CIA man. Truthfully, they played well off one another.
And Reynolds has grown on me over the last few years. His comedic timing was always great, but that smug sarcasm that made Van Wilder classic kept popping up in his roles after that. He almost lost me as a watcher, and I know that would have crushed him.
Anyhow, I don’t do the star-rating thing, or apply percentages, or give numbers out of anything, or do thumbs up — or any of that other reviewing nonsense. I also don’t shoehorn puns into my work, or force that pseudo-intellectual film snob stuff that’s polluting the critic biz right now.
My goal was to find my footing and take a stance. And mine is that I enjoyed a film that I recognize as a flawed work.
