Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on February 2014

In one of the late Paul Walker’s last roles, he plays a New Orleans father having a very bad day. His wife has just died in childbirth, the hospital’s blacked out thanks to Hurricane Katrina, and the ancient respirator keeping his daughter alive must be hand-cranked every two or three minutes. While Walker’s expressions of angst, frustration and anger are indistinguishable, the film, though dramatically thin, at least gives him more opportunities to act than his F&F efforts. But your main emotion may be impatience with the myriad contrivances and the numerous gauzy flashbacks used to pad it out. (96 min)