Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on May 2012

Secret Service guy wakes up in a transparent box in the trunk of a car, put there by terrorists who want to know where the President is. They first try psyching him out, then torture, but this is one tough agent. As claustrophobic guy-in-a-box movies go, this one, starring Stephen Dorff and his nostrils, is a bit like 2010’s Buried, starring Ryan Reynolds and his, except for the part about being remotely believable. Dorff is solid, but the film’s credibility erodes with each new contrivance, until not one but two preposterous third-act plot U-turns leave you with a definite jerked-around feeling.