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Silly Thriller - Hot Seat review by GI

A tired and cliché ridden B movie with a very limited lead actor and a second billed Mel Gibson who doesn't do very much at all. Kevin Dillon, all scowls and facial emotions, is a former computer hacker now reformed, with a family and a job at a call centre. He has family problems though and heads off to work on his daughter's birthday with divorce hanging over him. This cues lots of scowls!! His day just gets worse though when he finds a mysterious baddie has stuck a bomb under his office chair and forces him to hack into some safe or something or other basically to steal lots of money. the police eventually turn up including a grizzled old bomb disposal guy (Gibson) who is cynically wiser than all his buddies. The film shamelessly steals from just about everywhere and it's a fairly predictable and totally preposterous plot with the odd twist or two. A throw away film that is best watched on a rainy afternoon when there's nothing else to do.

Really, really bad film - Hot Seat review by JD

Ill admit, there is something oddly watchable about this film. I guess it throws enough questions to keep you thinking.

Actually, no, thinking on it we spent more time laughing at how daft it was. It starts off with the awful explosion effects, then runs into a flimsy plot who's subject matter, hacking and explosives are clearly something the writer, director etc do not know the slightest thing about. Of course if theyd hired an expert it would of meant back to the drawing board with the story and screenplay.

A really bad film thats lucky i gave it 2 stars. But if your super bored and fancy a laugh.....