¡¡Spoilers Ahead!! I wrote this as I watched it in "real time" to make reviewing this bomb remotely interesting.
Seriously, "24 Hours to Live" is this the best you can come up with for a name? It's like they just gave up on trying to have a single, solitary, original thought and worked from a basket full of clichés.
They could have just left out the whole plot device of the protagonist only having 24 hours to live and the movie wouldn't have changed at all. It was stupid gimmick.
Goof: In the beginning they say it's the Florida Keys but you see hills in the background. Anyone who has ever been there knows it's all barely above water. No big deal, but still. Just say it is where it is.
The tired old story of the burned-out case who has lost his wife and kid. The thing is, if the guy was such a creep he was probably crap at being a husband and probably worse at being a dad so he should be relieved that he was relieved of those duties.
Just when the plot begins to thicken there is a shootout amid shipping containers which was horribly choreographed and stupid. I'm not sure a film can survive such an infantile action sequence (another spoiler alert: it doesn't recover).
So the Interpol woman knew that her information had been compromised yet they didn't move their witness? How good could she be? How good could the writers be? Not very, is my answer. This leads to another idiotic shootout with multiple soldiers with assault rifles against the woman with a pistol inexplicably dragging a perfectly healthy man behind her. Even more inexplicable is how the hero shows up just in time to run over two guys about to execute the woman and the witnessand she just happens to be out of bullets right when she goes to shoot him. Up to this point the guns used seemed magic and not in need of reloading.
In this scene there's also a dumb car chase, of course.
Either the woman is a really, really bad actress or the director is really, really bad at his job, or both, but any way you slice it things come out bad for viewers.
The flashbacks of dead wife and kid thing got old the first time. The tired thing of the wife not liking what he does for a living has been done to death, no pun intended although I'm not sure that was a pun. Perhaps it was a poor choice of words but I'm not getting paid to write this so who cares? He says to his wife, "I can't keep having this conversation." Exactly what I was thinking about this lame plot device.
"Your wife and son?" she asks of a photo. "No, it's my parents." Who else would it be, you moron? "Faster! We can't lose them." Brilliant dialogue.
And then it gets really stupid.
13 shooters and not one of them has ever fired a weapon before? How else can you explain that they all missed? The shootouts are all like a Harlem Globetrotters game against the Generals. They should have hired Don Knots to be the leader.
Seriously, "24 Hours to Live" is this the best you can come up with for a name? It's like they just gave up on trying to have a single, solitary, original thought and worked from a basket full of clichés.
They could have just left out the whole plot device of the protagonist only having 24 hours to live and the movie wouldn't have changed at all. It was stupid gimmick.
Goof: In the beginning they say it's the Florida Keys but you see hills in the background. Anyone who has ever been there knows it's all barely above water. No big deal, but still. Just say it is where it is.
The tired old story of the burned-out case who has lost his wife and kid. The thing is, if the guy was such a creep he was probably crap at being a husband and probably worse at being a dad so he should be relieved that he was relieved of those duties.
Just when the plot begins to thicken there is a shootout amid shipping containers which was horribly choreographed and stupid. I'm not sure a film can survive such an infantile action sequence (another spoiler alert: it doesn't recover).
So the Interpol woman knew that her information had been compromised yet they didn't move their witness? How good could she be? How good could the writers be? Not very, is my answer. This leads to another idiotic shootout with multiple soldiers with assault rifles against the woman with a pistol inexplicably dragging a perfectly healthy man behind her. Even more inexplicable is how the hero shows up just in time to run over two guys about to execute the woman and the witnessand she just happens to be out of bullets right when she goes to shoot him. Up to this point the guns used seemed magic and not in need of reloading.
In this scene there's also a dumb car chase, of course.
Either the woman is a really, really bad actress or the director is really, really bad at his job, or both, but any way you slice it things come out bad for viewers.
The flashbacks of dead wife and kid thing got old the first time. The tired thing of the wife not liking what he does for a living has been done to death, no pun intended although I'm not sure that was a pun. Perhaps it was a poor choice of words but I'm not getting paid to write this so who cares? He says to his wife, "I can't keep having this conversation." Exactly what I was thinking about this lame plot device.
"Your wife and son?" she asks of a photo. "No, it's my parents." Who else would it be, you moron? "Faster! We can't lose them." Brilliant dialogue.
And then it gets really stupid.
13 shooters and not one of them has ever fired a weapon before? How else can you explain that they all missed? The shootouts are all like a Harlem Globetrotters game against the Generals. They should have hired Don Knots to be the leader.