Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Absolutely the worst movie.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Probably the worst film I've seen in over a decade. Completely pointless it being madeIts a cold war thriller brought up to date, clumsily constructed around a double twist.It is appallingly written - the plot makes little sense and has plot hole after plot hole. Characters make correct conclussions from almost no evidence and seem to stumble from one leap of faith to another. Sometimes new storylines just pop into existence with no, or almost no, origin. Dialogue is cliche after cliche, lifted from cold war thrillers made when the cold war was still on 30 years ago. The storyline is confused and muddiedIt has no redeeming features - the writing is poor, the directing is poor, the acting is poorOn a personal level, I found the pronunciation of 'Cash-us' really annoying. Is it an Americanism? I think the rest of the world says 'Kass-eus'

Well, it was just about good enough to watch until the end, but only just; however the Summary title says it all: I had forgotten that I had seen the end until I read through the synopsis on Wikipedia! I really like Richard Gere, Topher and obviously Martin Sheen, but as other reviewers have said, the plot is full of holes and it is ultimately unsatisfying candy floss - but if that's how you approach it then it passes the time if you can't find anything better to watch! Also as other reviewers have said, it is surprising that such big names opted for this film. Perhaps the script was rewritten during the filming - a writer / director film, after all.

Shouting is acting, the macho cast of this man-film seem to think.Richard Gere is astonishingly wooden, especially during the token Russian dialogue. The sound, script, direction and pacing is straight out of every other bore-snore CIA film - I was astonished to find this was made in 2011, albeit Gere's silver fox looks are a giveaway - it feels like it could have been just as dull in 1985.Weak-willed and expendable female characters, and some of the most insincere lines I've ever heard in cinema. Predictable fist-fights, tired gunfights, wrote car chases.I might start calling him Gere the insincere.

Ouch, what a setback I thought a film with Richard Gere as a retired secret agent might well be interesting. That was the first half hour. When I saw T. Grace, I didn't recognize him immediately , and then it hit me. He used to play in "That '70s Show". At that time he already looked sluggish and dull. In this movie it also seemed as if he would fall asleep any time. This part totally didn't suit him.The plot being revealed so early is something new. But then it all crumbles down and at the end you get a totally unexpected twist. The only thing is, it's totally unbelievable. The heroic fight at the end between Gere and Tamer Hassan was kind of entertaining, but when suddenly Gere crawls along Grace and almost immediately passes away, I was like, "Yep, come on". What a silly theater.A spy / thriller with a great start, a surprisingly early disclosure and then a downward flight to an anticlimax. One positive thing : it was fun to see Martin Sheen playing again.More reviews at http://opinion-as-a-moviefreak.blogspot.be/