Jessica Chastain does an admirable job sharing screen time with some of the immortals of the last century's box office greats.

Geena Davis and John Malkovich both have a long pedigreed of making great films, but give the devils her due, they also made a lot of stinkers as well.

This movie isn't a remake of the Long Kiss Goodbye, arguably one of Davis's best movies ever. So it shouldn't be compared as such.

is there anything truly new in this film, a resounding NO, but than today their isn't a lot of brand new content out there. If it has been made by American's it likely been made in another language or country.

If you are looking for a formula film that has passed the test of time, this will fill your needs. Its got action, suspense, a back story, betrayal and reconciliation. So that's it in a nut shell.

Enjoy or don't, but there are really slim pickings out there.

Jessica Chastain plays an international hit-woman. John Malkovich is her handler. It sounds like a Luc Besson thriller in the making. It's not. This is a ludicrously hard-to-believe story with soap-opera level writing and stiff performances all around. Everyone has a haunted past... infidelities... alcoholism... gambling addiction... cliché after cliché. At no point did anyone convince me of their character. This feels like the first draft in a college freshman's scriptwriting class.

Despite the rather low average score this is quite a nice action movie, especially as there are a couple of great actors in it.