ニコラス・ケイジ主演によるクライムドラマ。コロンビアで生産されアメリカへ陸路で輸送される高純度のコカインに、何者かが途中で不純物を混ぜていることが判明した。カナダに拠点を置く麻薬組織のベテラン運び屋ザ・クックは、その犯人を探し出すようボスに命じられ、密輸ルートをたどりながら調査を続けていく。共演に「マトリックス」シリーズのローレンス・フィッシュバーン、「グリーンマイル」のバリー・ペッパー、「パリ、恋人たちの2日間」のアダム・ゴールドバーグ。監督・脚本は、元ネイビーシールズ隊員という異色の経歴を持つジェイソン・カベル。
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監督: Jason Cabell
脚本: Jason Cabell
音楽: Reinhold Heil
制作: Michael Mendelsohn / Jim Steele / Natalie Perrotta
撮影監督: Cory Geryak
制作会社: Patriot Pictures / Jaguar Bite / Saturn Films
Surely, by 2019, Nicolas Cage had sorted out his issues with the IRS?? Otherwise, what on earth possessed him and an equally out-of-sorts Laurence Fishburne to take part in this third rate crime drama. The pair are despatched by their bioss to investigate just what is happening to their disrupted supplies of cocaine. Now it's quite a trail they have to follow stretching from Mexico all the way through the United States to the ultimate destination in Canada. Along the way they discover that not only is their lucrative business being tampered with, but the drugs themselves are being thinned out using dangerous additives that are causing some of their clients to die the grimmest of deaths - not at all good for business! Now, mercifully, there is little dialogue to complain of here - it's all in the imagery and the imagination and there is fails pretty spectacularly. It is flat, dry and although only just over the hour and a half in length, seems to take for ever to reach a predictable and unimaginative denouement. I suppose what is interesting is watching the price rise exponentially as the production chain becomes a distribution one and every pair of hands has to take their cut, but for the most part this is a really disappointing watch that is nobody's finest work - on either side of the camera. Authentic and brutal at times? A little - but it's search for a more family-orientated rating means it's all just a bit lacklustre. I really wouldn't bother.
