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He didn't look like a legitimate lawyer but an overacting high school dropout. There's no way he could convince any audience he's capable of doing the job to be a defense lawyer for a capital murder case. I think he didn't study how to be a convincing lawyer who's seriously enough to take a life-and-death legal case. And he's so lazy not to learn and change his formulaic Texan accent. Serious actor always knows when and how to change his accent in different movies at different localities.

This movie also suffered so many flaws of bad screenplay, terrible dialog, miscast, poor directing and weak scenarios. What we saw in this movie were about half of the characters who looked just like a bunch of clowns, while the other half were deadly serious, and the biggest clown figure in this movie was the leading role played by Matthew McConaughey.

I've read this novel and liked it, but this movie was seemingly on purpose turning it into a completely different farce. This is the second time I tried to watch this movie, but again, I just couldn't finish it like last time. It's just too pretentious and pathetic to watch.

I was just turned off immediately after about three to four minutes of this ridiculous movie churned out of India. An absurd and lazy production. The protagonist and his stupid sidekick didn't buckle up until the last moment. They argued about the smell of the masks which were kept by his sidekick? They chased a car and got it at the right time and the right place, both cars were basic entry models. The guy could predict exactly the other car's movements, he could miraculously T-bone it when it came out of the crossroad. Wow, this guy was a psychic, man. The car they hit kept flipping over and over, but we could see so clearly it's empty. They rushed out of their car with their guns blazing, shot so many bullets at the car that had been crashed and flipped over so many times, but its both sides windows were intact like nothing happened, yet funnily, only its rear windshield broken, like it was hit by bullets. But, Jesus, the stupid impossibilities just kept showing: They shot the car from both sides of that car through the windows, but those windows were still intact like nothing happened; even the bullet-prove windows would at least show some cracks when hit by so many bullets, but no, my blind audience friends didn't see at all. When the protagonist forced the guy to open the trunk, what we saw when it opened, the bag was neatly set close to the opening, and a knife was also neatly under that bag; after the small car crashed by another small car, the crashing force from a small car could make the car keep turning over and over so many times, and the bag and the knife could still stay at the same place, and the knife could still neatly covered under the bag.

So, after watched these incredible scenes, I suddenly found my I. Q. and my eyesight were still quite okay, no dementia, no cataracts. Hurray!

I have to quote part of the reviewer drjgardener5' comments first to point out how badly this movie was executed, then some more:

"Couldn't afford a military adviser?

Drjgardner5 June 2023

If your identity has been exposed and your picture is all over the news, do you continue to look exactly like you look in the picture or do you shave your beard and head and wear different clothes? Maybe even add a scar? And if you're attacking a car from a helicopter, do you attack from the front, or from behind and to the left? And tell me how with no surveillance at all, you know the exact location of a car you're chasing? These are but a few of the flaws in the film that detract from taking it seriously."

Scenes from the very beginning that would put my I. Q. to test: You think that the Iranian regime now would allow the white westerners to service their most critical and important telecom system? Would allow the guy to use his cellphone when he did the repair works? Are the Iranian government so stupid and so naive to allow two foreigners manhandled their telecommunication systems? Would you believe that the Wi-Fi signals in the Iranian desert, in the middle of nowhere, maybe the strongest and most advanced?

And how long an American spy satellite could stay in the orbit exactly stay over Iran and exactly pinpoint the location where all the scenes that we saw on the screen. Or is it an American drone, a stealth one, that could permanently hover over the scenes that we saw? So far, an armed drone can only carry two bombs and dropping them by remote controllers far away from Iran. Yet what we saw in this frigging stupid movie, bombs dropped like rain from the sky in clustered formation and every one of them dropped on the Iranian military armor trucks like smart bombs. Furthermore, you think the Iranians would be so stupid and blind, allowing American drones to stay over its airspace without even knowing, and their air defense is nothing but a joke?

I've already lost my patience to watch the absurd and slow-going of the movie from the early on and the later absurdities. I would think "The Covenant" is a more believable thriller, except the cardboard acting of the guy who played the Afghanistan interpreter.