No Pepper
Cheerless rip-off of the Bourne franchise with a female in the lead role that also betrays the influence of the Manchurian Candidate and No Way Out.
It is fun and the action is frenetic, frantic and fast to conceal the lack of any real content. It is insistently-paced and the desperate Cold War-era plotting; revealing the dearth of imagination among far too many contemporary screenwriters - as if there were not enough newspaper stories that can be profitably exploited for dramatic purposes. There are far too many, in fact, just not enough good dramatists who know how to create convincing stories, plots and characters.
Something could surely have been made more of a classic 007-style plot that strangely re-imagines the assassination of JFK as a Soviet plot. The themes that could have made this more compelling are simply lacking.
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