This movie is just over-the-top Hollywood BS. The writer must think TV is real...he certainly absorbed every mannerism and cliched story line that every cop show and gangster movie ever used, and he strings them all together in a convoluted mush that goes from one supposedly tense moment to another. This is the story of a writer and director trying to outdo other writers and directors who are trying to outdo others in turn. Turn the dial up to eleven. It doesn't have three minutes in it that seem like anything that could ever happen in real life. You're just watching actors act and a parade of standard movie effects. You can all but see the crew standing around in every scene.Who cares? It's like the movie version of a video game. Slick trash, basically.