365 Days. 365 Films.

From the director of The Scorpion King and The Mask comes a film about a witness protection officer who begins to suspect that his colleagues are actually undercover and working for the bad guys. John Kruger (Schearzenegger) is assigned a new task of looking after Lee Cullen (Williams) after she was persuaded by the FBI to break security codes at her office building to copy top secret data that her company had been working on.

Typical of it’s genre, the plot is unimportant, and the focus is mostly on the actual action which is not brilliant but better than you may expect given the quality of the film. One major criticism about this film is that it goes on too long, there are several endings to it and the action slows down to compensate.

For those of you who have read my review of The Scorpion King, you may know that Russell is not exactly my favourite director. Although I see nothing especially wrong with The Mask, but then again, that was not a film to be taken seriously, and Jim Carrey sort of stole the audience’s attention from everyone and everything about that film. The direction in this film, however, is better than both. It’s invisible and not especially creative given the choreography, but it works on a mediocre level. It’s another average action film, neither here nor there, watchable, enjoyable, but unmemorable and shallow.