A trained assassin (Simon Pegg) looks on as a dentist (Sullivan Stapleton) and his wife (Teresa Palmer, slowly going from drab to fab) kill a patient (Alice Braga) to cash in on an insurance policy switcheroo. Director Kriv Stenders divulges the murder, chases it with a discursive second act flashback, and serves up the cliches over ice. Billed as an action-thriller, it plays best when viewed as a duly convoluted film noir parody. What little originality there is sprinkled about – how to remove a spare tire with an unconscious dame in the trunk – can’t compensate screenwriter James McFarland's brazen noir boilerplate. With this many stereotypes (and that much happenstance), it’s hard not to see the fatalistic future a few scenes ahead of the characters, although the ending arrives as a pleasantly unpleasant surprise. With Bryan Brown, one of the Hemsworths, and more pointless aerial photography than you find at a Kardashian wedding. (2015) — Scott Marks
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