The numbers station movie review

Cast: John Cusack, Malin Akerman, Liam Cunningham
Director: Kasper Barfoed

  The movie is about an agent ,played by John Cusack, who is transferred to London to guard a code operator, portrayed by Malin Akerman. Everything is going great until a bunch of bad guys broadcast 15 unauthorised missions and try to kill Akerman from canceling them.
  I though the missions broad casted by numbers and all that CIA stuff were pretty interesting but the movie is not at all about that.It could have been just any CIA unit and it wouldn't matter to the plot of the movie, which was a bummer since the concept of the numbers was what intrigued me about it.One thing i, also, liked was how at one point there was an unexpected death.But that ,also, didn't have any impact to the plot.And those were the two things about the movie that i kind of liked. 
  Now for what i disliked about the movie.The first sequence where John Cusack's character starts to feel empathy and remorse and decides not to kill the young girl, played by Hannah Murray (yeah for skins UK fans), was completely unrealistic.We see him kill everyone without a glimpse of an eye the scene before and we are supposed to believe that he suddenly had a change of heart?Sorry but i don't buy it. Also, i couldn't feel that Cusack was a good guy,which i think i was supposed to, but they didn't make him to be a bad guy either,which would have been a lot more interesting, so as a result i just didn't care about him at all.Actually, i didn't care about Akerman either.Moreover, we meet the bad guys for what feels like a second and we don't see them again.And i get that they are just those who follow orders but we never see or hear from the real bad guys and we don't know who they really are,which is a little bit confusing and makes the movie feel a bit fake.Furthermore, i didn't feel any kind of thrill during the fight scenes.I found them to be unbelievable so i didn't enjoy them at all.Finally,the fact that almost the whole movie takes place in that underground facility doesn't help with the lack of excitement but it makes it even worse.
  In conclusion, this is a movie where you don't care about the characters,you have trouble figuring out who's on the good side and who's on the bad and it ,also, isn't much of an action movie either.So i suggest you don't waste one and a half hour watching it.
Score:27%

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