This film isn't bad at all. I tend to rate low and I'd expect it to score well over 6. The acting is fine all round, the story mostly works, the pace is kept up and the tension well-sustained. It's no masterpiece, but passes an exciting and enjoyable 90 minutes.
On the downside: the clichéed bratty kid (You only care about your job, mommy, not little meee.) seems to be included only to spin out tension for a few more (and highly improbable) seconds; the director seems to want to examine the psyches of bomb disposal crews, but this aspect is too rushed to be either useful or interesting; since the character Camille seems just as clued-up as Igor and somewhat more effective in action, had more of that action been left to her, the outcome might have been better; and finally, once Camille buys them the 90lb, a far more obvious solution to the problem becomes apparent but none of the characters ever realise - I'll say no more to avoid spoilers.
Watched as pure entertainment, I'd recommend this.
5.1Plot summary
In a Parisian parking lot Sonia finds herself trapped in her car with her son and the daughter of her boyfriend Fred, who has been left outside, powerless to deal with the situation: an anti-tank mine has been set under the car. Sonia is a bomb-disposal expert, who works for a NGO with Fred. She just got back from a mission in Ukraine and, while she's used to face dangerous situations, with the children's lives on the line the stakes have never been higher. Along with colleagues Igor and Camille, who came to the rescue, Sonia and Fred have 30 minutes to diffuse the bomb and work out who could be the mastermind behind this. Will they stand united until the end or will the family implode under pressure?
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Nora Arnezeder as Sonia
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