Right, this film is nicely shot, good characters has big names etc etc as everyone else has said, but.....
It has no plot... The plot is that the boss gets ill (but he isn't), so he hands his business to his 2nd in command and not his son. Queue power struggle between son and 2nd in command ending with son dead. Boss now reveals he isn't dying and kills second in command and the film ends. In between this Ray Liotta kills people, gets mugged and other people die, plus a couple of Afghani's pop up.... So, if he wanted them dead why not kill them in the first place using Ray Liotta (contract killer who he hired any way) for anonymity. Why go to the trouble of acting ill to go into all this farce, and I'm even guessing this as this isn't explained in the film, you're left guessing..... Those who say this is a character arty film blah blah are right but it's still a really bad and unfulfilling film. Those who compare it to "man on fire" are just wrong, that film rocks and Denzel rocks it, plus it has a plot...
So basically don't watch this, watch "man on fire" if you've already seen "man on fire" watch it again, it will be a better use of 95 minutes, in fact I may watch it again now :-)
Plus it's called "The Line", which is apparently the drug route from Mexico to the USA, but this film mentions it twice and the name has no bearing on it. It should have been called "Nasty confusing people in Tijuana"
It has no plot... The plot is that the boss gets ill (but he isn't), so he hands his business to his 2nd in command and not his son. Queue power struggle between son and 2nd in command ending with son dead. Boss now reveals he isn't dying and kills second in command and the film ends. In between this Ray Liotta kills people, gets mugged and other people die, plus a couple of Afghani's pop up.... So, if he wanted them dead why not kill them in the first place using Ray Liotta (contract killer who he hired any way) for anonymity. Why go to the trouble of acting ill to go into all this farce, and I'm even guessing this as this isn't explained in the film, you're left guessing..... Those who say this is a character arty film blah blah are right but it's still a really bad and unfulfilling film. Those who compare it to "man on fire" are just wrong, that film rocks and Denzel rocks it, plus it has a plot...
So basically don't watch this, watch "man on fire" if you've already seen "man on fire" watch it again, it will be a better use of 95 minutes, in fact I may watch it again now :-)
Plus it's called "The Line", which is apparently the drug route from Mexico to the USA, but this film mentions it twice and the name has no bearing on it. It should have been called "Nasty confusing people in Tijuana"