For some reason I keep being drawn to these films with Bruce Willis in the cast, hoping at some point they'll get better than some of the other recent dreck he's shown up in. I see he's got one in post-production now called "White Elephant", which sounds like a harbinger of another dismal one to come. Willis does make spot appearances throughout this picture as police detective Mike Cella, but he's not really instrumental to the story or it's eventual outcome. He has a way of demonstrating his disinterest in the project by almost whispering his lines; you do have to strain to hear what he's saying at times.
So you may be wondering like me, how is it a guy like Jeremy Coleman (Josh Duhamel) goes into the witness protection program, and is allowed to keep his old phone number??!! Isn't that like defeating the whole purpose? I'm sure that can't be the case, but that's what the film makers went with here. Coleman was able to identify a major crime figure (Vincent D'Onofrio) who murdered the owner of a convenience store to earn his entry into witness protection, but his romance with a U. S. Marshal (Rosario Dawson) threatens both their lives when he's relocated to New Orleans with a new identity.
The movie's title hinges on Jeremy Coleman's occupation as a firefighter, and as it would suggest, the denouement arrives in a blaze of glory, as the vicious gangster David Hagan (D'Onofrio) gets taken out by an ax to the chest, a cascade of bullets from Talia Durham (Dawson), and a fall from an upper story warehouse while on fire. I guess the screen writers wanted you to know the guy was really dead when he hit the pavement. Willis's character by this time was nowhere to be found, probably cashing his check and laughing all the way to the bank.
So you may be wondering like me, how is it a guy like Jeremy Coleman (Josh Duhamel) goes into the witness protection program, and is allowed to keep his old phone number??!! Isn't that like defeating the whole purpose? I'm sure that can't be the case, but that's what the film makers went with here. Coleman was able to identify a major crime figure (Vincent D'Onofrio) who murdered the owner of a convenience store to earn his entry into witness protection, but his romance with a U. S. Marshal (Rosario Dawson) threatens both their lives when he's relocated to New Orleans with a new identity.
The movie's title hinges on Jeremy Coleman's occupation as a firefighter, and as it would suggest, the denouement arrives in a blaze of glory, as the vicious gangster David Hagan (D'Onofrio) gets taken out by an ax to the chest, a cascade of bullets from Talia Durham (Dawson), and a fall from an upper story warehouse while on fire. I guess the screen writers wanted you to know the guy was really dead when he hit the pavement. Willis's character by this time was nowhere to be found, probably cashing his check and laughing all the way to the bank.