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  Manisha Lakhe

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What drives a man to step out on the ledge and want to jump off? As Amitabh Bachchan has said: Ya toh Olympic ka race ho, ya police ka case...In this very obvious, I-have-been-framed the hero stands o …

What drives a man to step out on the ledge and want to jump off? As Amitabh Bachchan has said: Ya toh Olympic ka race ho, ya police ka case...In this very obvious, I-have-been-framed the hero stands on the ledge of the famous Roosevelt hotel in the middle of Mahnattan and threatens to jump off. Had this been Bombay, or Delhi even, there would have been no cordoning off the intersection, no traffic diverted, no police officer would have attempted to talk him out of the suicide attempt. But this is Hollywood, and it is completely acceptable for the hero to be out there on the ledge, hoodwinking the city’s police.



Yes, he maintains that he is innocent, but in the meanwhile, he has something else planned. The idea has been taken from the Double Jeopardy law (as well as the movie. which was way better than this one, with Ashley Judd in the lead) which states that you cannot be penalised for the same offence twice.

Now Sam Worthington at best is good for Terminator like machines, where you don’t need to show off your acting chops at all. Here, the action is limited as he is standing on the ledge of the building almost through the movie. And his limited acting prowess shows up in rather painful large doses. And dialog that comprises him yelling, ‘Wooo-hah!’ at the crowd below does not help.



But the action is decent and the twists and turns decent enough. It’s not a big brain movie if the second lead heroine has to strip down to her pretty lacy underwear. But then again, you do need to watch action flicks, sometimes.