We begin by seeing Liam Cunningham and our hero John Cusack doing a quick Pulp Fiction style bit of chatter which will come back at the end and tie things up. then we see some numbers as that is the title of the film and John then wanders into a bar and kills everybody in it. A consequence of this attack causes John to question his role in the US security organisation he works for and to help him make up his mind he is sent to deepest darkest Suffolk to look after an isolated broadcast station for the numbers which equate to field agent assignments.
Now I have been to Suffolk many times and it is not quite as deep and dark as the film makes out and is not quite as isolated either as rather a lot of people would notice this ultra secret installation. The director obviously knows little of the way things work in Suffolk as the scenes at the railway station show clearly. You can't just turn up at a station and wander on a train which then conveniently moves off after you get on. We have things called guards who ensure that the passengers have gotten on before allowing the train to move off safely. Though obviously not in Suffolk which is deep and dark and an ideal place to hide US skulduggery.
The shift he looks after comes back and finds the station under attack and that's where the film dives for the ditch and we get a bog standard so called thriller that makes little sense and whose plot is rather ridiculous. How the attackers got in and managed to compromise the station is not explained and a few cut scenes of attackers overwhelming the shift Cusack came to replace contradict the segment where they are now somehow unable to repeat what they did before and now reduced to having to drill their way in.
Anyway everything ends well except for a few bullet injuries and Cusack takes the female code breaker to a mysterious Suffolk hospital that the staff place gunshot victims in rooms on their own and then just go home leaving the hospital unmanned. Said staff seem to think nothing odd that two people with gunshot injuries, one armed with a gun, crash into their car park and don't think to contact the local police allowing the US security organisation to just wander into the place armed and unchallenged by anyone. Well that's Suffolk for you.
After sorting everything out with the coda to the bit of chat at the beginning Liam Cunningham, who has magically appeared from the US, says 'we were never here' which is probably what the audience were wishing half way through this tripe.
Lazy writing, lazy acting by the cast which is a shame as Cunningham and Cusack are excellent actors and some ridiculous scenarios and situations. Overall a boring mess of a film that defies common sense and makes Suffolk look a lot stranger and menacing than it actually is. By the way I am NOT from Suffolk.
Now I have been to Suffolk many times and it is not quite as deep and dark as the film makes out and is not quite as isolated either as rather a lot of people would notice this ultra secret installation. The director obviously knows little of the way things work in Suffolk as the scenes at the railway station show clearly. You can't just turn up at a station and wander on a train which then conveniently moves off after you get on. We have things called guards who ensure that the passengers have gotten on before allowing the train to move off safely. Though obviously not in Suffolk which is deep and dark and an ideal place to hide US skulduggery.
The shift he looks after comes back and finds the station under attack and that's where the film dives for the ditch and we get a bog standard so called thriller that makes little sense and whose plot is rather ridiculous. How the attackers got in and managed to compromise the station is not explained and a few cut scenes of attackers overwhelming the shift Cusack came to replace contradict the segment where they are now somehow unable to repeat what they did before and now reduced to having to drill their way in.
Anyway everything ends well except for a few bullet injuries and Cusack takes the female code breaker to a mysterious Suffolk hospital that the staff place gunshot victims in rooms on their own and then just go home leaving the hospital unmanned. Said staff seem to think nothing odd that two people with gunshot injuries, one armed with a gun, crash into their car park and don't think to contact the local police allowing the US security organisation to just wander into the place armed and unchallenged by anyone. Well that's Suffolk for you.
After sorting everything out with the coda to the bit of chat at the beginning Liam Cunningham, who has magically appeared from the US, says 'we were never here' which is probably what the audience were wishing half way through this tripe.
Lazy writing, lazy acting by the cast which is a shame as Cunningham and Cusack are excellent actors and some ridiculous scenarios and situations. Overall a boring mess of a film that defies common sense and makes Suffolk look a lot stranger and menacing than it actually is. By the way I am NOT from Suffolk.