"Starts promising but soon delves into a stodgy, plodding action piece that has struggles to keep up with its own plot contrivances. In a film with so much invested on the bomb controlling everything, the worry of danger diminishes as every minute passes, the tense beginning devolving into farce, especially once we leave the studio.
Clooney is decent here and it's a shame this cocky, arrogant character is wasted as it's one of his better performances in recent years, his slimy uttering in the first act are believable and ground the film in a character that could go somewhere interesting - alas not so much. His transformation to caring about the 'normal guy' is sloppy, mundane and mechanical - just like the film as a whole"
- 5/10
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