This film is like a Westworld (1973) clone that got kidnapped by Taken (2008) and was forced to make awkwardly-paced cliche-ridden babies. The opening scene sets the tone with a flythrough of a rather shabby looking Utopia and ends with a trashy scene between the two most wooden actors in the entire film. It's about as promising as a soggy pancake.
While we're on the topic of acting ... the lead actors do their best to look serious, but it's as convincing as a toddler pretending to be a detective. They're fine, they're serviceable, but it's not like anyone's going to be dusting off their Oscar trophies after this. The minor characters, however, are an entirely different story. The various Utopia women seem like they were cast less for their acting abilities and more for their ability to look good in very little clothing. It's as if the director told them, "Just take off most of your clothes and then read these lines as if you've never seen a script before." The various male clientele are just as terrible. Some of them might as well be twiddling their moustaches.
To be fair it's not all a disaster. The action scenes, especially the opening bathroom fight, are actually pretty decent. Whoever choreographed those sequences has a future in the business. The fights are the highlight, because let's face it, without them this film would be nothing more than a sad combination of a predictable plot and badly-delivered lines.
While we're on the topic of acting ... the lead actors do their best to look serious, but it's as convincing as a toddler pretending to be a detective. They're fine, they're serviceable, but it's not like anyone's going to be dusting off their Oscar trophies after this. The minor characters, however, are an entirely different story. The various Utopia women seem like they were cast less for their acting abilities and more for their ability to look good in very little clothing. It's as if the director told them, "Just take off most of your clothes and then read these lines as if you've never seen a script before." The various male clientele are just as terrible. Some of them might as well be twiddling their moustaches.
To be fair it's not all a disaster. The action scenes, especially the opening bathroom fight, are actually pretty decent. Whoever choreographed those sequences has a future in the business. The fights are the highlight, because let's face it, without them this film would be nothing more than a sad combination of a predictable plot and badly-delivered lines.