It's complete nonsense in terms of the "thriller" aspect of the story. Forget about reality needed for this genre to be suitable here. The same nonsense though, lifts this movie above avarege (in a good way) when it comes to the "action" part - as an action movie this one is better than most. Quite good, sharp dialogues, likable and quite interesting characters (as for the action movie, remember) brought to some life by Gosling, Evans, and de Armas, light and fun direction, nice locations, mediocre but passable CGI, bit of humour, quite intense editing, meticulous action inscenisation bringing to mind a bit gamedev way of thinking about camera movement.... aaaand completely absurd story (which, to be honest, COULD HAVE BEEN not so absurd, if done more seriously in the tone, without so much of the "action" ingredient).
One thing I don't get though: who the hell green-lited the outro pre end credits animation stylised as a stillframe fly-trough between some kind of iron sculptures, statues of main characters. I mean... this is so horribly ugly - as for the concept itself (lame as lamest dumb moronic piece of crap) and for the realisation (vomit-provoking aesthetics here are quite frankly unprecedented even on the level of medicine simulation animations from the ugliest tv commercials) - that it just blows my mind how on earth somebody in production could have watched it and say "yeah, I like it, done, thank you." This. Is. Just. Unbelievably. Ugly. And nothing, I mean nothing can possibly explain the reason for choosing this garbage to be aired, while in reality it should not be shown to anybody besides mom of this 14 year old boy who must have made that. And if it's done not by him, but by a group of adults - welll... in that case their permission to TOUCH a computer should be revoked for life under the treath of instant death by a shark attack, detonation and hanging. It left me speachless, really.
One thing I don't get though: who the hell green-lited the outro pre end credits animation stylised as a stillframe fly-trough between some kind of iron sculptures, statues of main characters. I mean... this is so horribly ugly - as for the concept itself (lame as lamest dumb moronic piece of crap) and for the realisation (vomit-provoking aesthetics here are quite frankly unprecedented even on the level of medicine simulation animations from the ugliest tv commercials) - that it just blows my mind how on earth somebody in production could have watched it and say "yeah, I like it, done, thank you." This. Is. Just. Unbelievably. Ugly. And nothing, I mean nothing can possibly explain the reason for choosing this garbage to be aired, while in reality it should not be shown to anybody besides mom of this 14 year old boy who must have made that. And if it's done not by him, but by a group of adults - welll... in that case their permission to TOUCH a computer should be revoked for life under the treath of instant death by a shark attack, detonation and hanging. It left me speachless, really.