This is one of those thrillers like Panic Room and Red Eye that is built around a criminal's diabolical - but from the get-go ludicrous - plan that descends into chaos before it even begins, but still it goes on and on, and as Paul Bettany's archvillain looks less and less (and less) likely to get anything for the enormous amount of trouble he has gone to (kidnapping Harrison Ford's banking security expert's family, distributing spy camera biros, stealing epipens, doling out poor dietary choices of biscuits, spending a long couple of listless days on his victim's couch eating cereal and watching Fred Flintstone) still he persists with the chaos, to the end carting around the yappy family dog, keeping people alive for no reason, and resolutely ignoring the fact that his criminal gang is destroying itself from the inside as the family of victims rests and listens to their iPods.
★★☆☆☆
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