The story concept is, in fact, interesting enough to establish some immediate degree of intrigue, supplemented enough by the solid style and solid lead performances for the final product to transcend contemptibility, if not flirt with, well, borderline decency. No, it’s not Taken but rather The Prince, Brian A. Miller’s B-movie action-thriller that mainly serves to illustrate how far such former marquee names as Jason Patric, Bruce Willis and John Cusack have fallen. Sitemap | Nonetheless, the film held the attention and even though it was based on a trash novel one got the feeling of wanting to know what would happen next. It's about mercenaries on both sides of the camera. Originality, either in terms of writing or direction, in in short supply in this assembly-line vigilante thriller. TWITTER Verified reviews are considered more trustworthy by fellow moviegoers. FACEBOOK Yet while it's entertaining, The Prince is a formulaic and forgettable action film. © 2020 The Hollywood Reporter The Prince was produced by Chile’s El Otro Film and Niña Niño Films, Argentina’s Le Tiro and Belgium’s Be Revolution Pictures. Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. They won't be able to see your review if you only submit your rating. It's a rather familiar story and follows all of the usual tropes. Please click the link below to receive your verification email. Contact us | Logos and banners | Change privacy settings, Mission | Structure | Partners | Team | Participate | Donations | Terms and conditions, (The article continues below - Commercial information), Spanish-Chilean director Théo Court is now competing in the official section of the 57th Gijón Film Festival with the captivating, The international critics give their award to Roman Polanski. Often formulaic something awful, and about as often abused as a supplemented to the contrivances of the directorial storytelling, The Newton Brothers' score, with its creative ambiences and having enough tonal and stylistic dynamicity throughout its prominent presence to hold some ounce of your attention, remains fairly inspired on the whole, though not quite as much as Yaron Levy's cinematography, which is sometimes cheaply defined and often overproduced with its lighting, but mostly, not simply striking, but near-stunning, with a heavy palette and glow which catch your eye time and again, and sometimes captivate. With daily news, interviews, data bases, in-depth investigations into the audiovisual industry, Cineuropa aims at promoting the European film industry throughout the world. EMAIL ME. Enlisting one of her school friends (Jessica Lowndes) to help track her down, he soon finds himself confronting an array of bad guys who he dispatches with the sort of ruthless efficiency and seeming invulnerability specific to action movie heroes. Again, if this film is not too bland to be bad, then its concept is too interesting to be repulsive, and entirely cleansed of some sense of genuine tension and consequence, but it remains startlingly clichéd, and, in a lot of ways, paper-thin, its weight further betrayed by Andre Fabrizio's and Jeremy Passmore's shoddy writing, and, of course, by lazy direction. We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future. Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! It's a shame, because Bruce Willis's boss character seemed to be a really interesting guy, who I'd have loved to see more of and learn more about. |, August 22, 2014 A retired assassin is forced to use his special skills while moving heaven and earth to find his kidnapped daughter. |, August 24, 2014 After the tragedy, Paul and his family flea and for 18 years, live in peace, but that all changes when his daughter goes down to New Orleans for a weekend getaway and disappears. As a shocking view of depravity and brutality in a Chilean prison before Allende's election, the film is convincing. An idle Netflix user could certainly do far worse when browsing for mindless actioners. The Prince isn't very unique and you can't help but draw parallels to A History of Violence. This is the kind of action film I'd love to see more of. But boy was I disappointed. Privacy | Coming Soon, Regal Cineuropa is the first European portal dedicated to cinema and audiovisual in 4 languages. The percentage of users who rated this 3.5 stars or higher. Terms of Use | If you feel that the cast may be more than this film deserves, well, you are most certainly right, though mostly if look at the fulfilled potential for flatness in the execution of a generic story concept, because the idea behind this film, no matter how trite, does have some potential tension, if not humanity. The movie begins with an extreme close-up shot of the slit throat of a twentysomething man, lying in a pool of freshly spilled blood. Well, VOD probably is better than straight-to-DVD, because if people want to rewatch this film, then he or she will have to keep paying for it, although it's not like anyone is going to watch this film once, let alone want to watch it again, because there's probably a reason why they're keeping this film on a low profile, except for people like me, who only knows that this film exists for a particular reasons. About Our Ads If Brian A. Miller's direction isn't lazily flimsy, it's either limp or, well, a little effective, at least when it comes to style that is highlighted in rare, conventional and occasionally questionably staged, but generally well-orchestrated and well-choreographed action sequences that are themselves a highlight in the establishment of some kind of tension in the storytelling. Please reference “Error Code 2121” when contacting customer service. Lionsgate must have known what they were in for when they looked at this cast, and realized that Willis and Cusack, the only two people in there who show up in good movies from time to time, are barely in the final product, probably by request. Just below that it reads "Ticket Confirmation#:" followed by a 10-digit number. The 76th edition of the Venice Film Festival has hosted the world premiere of the feature debut by Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Muñoz Costa del Río. By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. |, August 29, 2014 Had I been the writer, I would have utilized flashbacks through out, to show more of the prince and the bosses story, but sadly they didn't. Another kind of action movie where you would expect Jason Statham in the lead role. The greatest effort seems to have gone into getting the look of the fight scenes correctly in an otherwise bland film.

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