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I really wanted to love this - I am a fan of other works people from this have made, and I have enjoyed other female led recent films. And this was a well put together film - good actors, a good idea, and a slick production. So I am surprised I didn't like it. The problem I had was how for 11 minutes nobodies eyebrows/forehead/cheeks moved. It was weird. Suddenly someone could (at 11:47), but then those characters couldn't move their faces for the rest of the film. That is really weird!!! I like diverse mix of actors in a film - young to old. But this was the young and the facial-expressional-disabled! Other than that, its ok: you want con thriller - that what you will get.

This movie reminds me of if someone had made one about a tobacco company at the time they were still denying a link between smoking and related diseases. The legal-speak used by the company executives comes across as insincere and duplicitous.

It seems like a fairly honestly made film. Focusing on something proposed as a non lethal solution, that turns out not be.

That said, the overriding issue that seems to be highlighted by the film is that they can cause death - and that they are overused. Most instances where there was a fatality, it was where the cops used it to subdue someone, not to disarm or avoid an extremely violent / homicidal individual.

So I can't help feel that the investigation should have concentrated on the people using them, and why they did in seemingly the wrong circumstances.

This has to be the worst movie I have seen for years (ever?) (Which includes the latest Spiderman and Transformer films for way of baseline). So clichéd - seriously any cliché you could think of added; and more for sure. Massive destruction (thousands killed?) not really addressed, but don't worry - Mum, Dad, kiddies (lots of 'em) - (maybe) OK, of course. (It kinda reminds me of Independence day - in that everyone depends on 1 guy - except here is doesn't carry any weight, his abilities don't seem to carry any weight, and he doesn't seem to have any characteristics that contribute to the solution. Yeah, you know nearly everyone important will survive. But most grating is how lovable and endearing all the 'needed' characters are needed to be. Indeed how clumsily our investment in them is constructed. The hero, the dutiful family, the saccharin moments. I wish I could better put into words how bad the film is. Pass. Not the grade - but the advice.