After picking up his daughter from the train station, Detective Thomas Craven (Gibson) takes her home to catch up on how she's been. While steping out his front door, Craven watches as a masked assailant guns down his daughter in front of his eyes. At first this seems like someone from Craven's past as a homicide detective was looking for revenge, but as Craven digs deeper he soon finds out that she really was the target. Now driven by self guilt and the loss his daughter, Craven begins his own investigation on what lead to his daughter's demise.
Now without giving too much away, I will say that this movie was well made. Most of the scenes kept a natural sense about them by having little to no background music accompanying them. You feel bad for Craven, but you also want to see him get revenge by any means possible. It has a feeling of a noir detective film, but that's not exactly what it is. The only real downside to it all is that at points it can drag and make the movie seem longer than it actually is. I will say though that if you like honest detective films where you learn with the character the facts, go see it.
If that doesn't do it for you, go see it to see Mel play a cop on the edge. Hell, he even has a line in the movie where he says, " I'm on the edge and have nothing to live for, so don't get in my way." Come on, you know you want to see that.
Rating: SEE IT
Til Next Time,
Mike
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