You’ll soon give up on this over-edited, frenetic tracking of an ex-FBI agent searching for her kidnapped baby in Marrakesh. Lots of local colour and annoying use of slo-mo and overlapping dissolves. Neither situation or characters convince. Plot and dialogue is irrelevant. Fight scenes look ridiculous owing to the modern scourge of shooting too close up with a shaky camera, then over-editing into bite-sized clips.
According to the trailer Howard J. Ford is an ‘acclaimed director’, but if you’ve seen his previous zombie effort The Dead you’ll know what to expect. This one is like a cheap knock-off of a good action movie, like all those unwatchable Italian westerns that followed Leone’s. Truly boring but one star for a British director who at least isn’t bogged down in social realism.