This routine Las Vegas-set dirty cops and drug lords thriller has a good cast but rarely sets the pulses racing, set over one day/night as a seemingly double-dealing detective (adequately played by Jamie Foxx) has to rescue his kidnapped son after a drugs heist goes wrong. There are a couple of very lively action sequences (the kidnap itself and a full-on kitchen fight), but most of the intended story surprises are quite predictable, the effects of seriously-sustained injuries seem to come and go randomly, the final act descends into quite extraordinary silliness, but there is some good work from Michelle Monaghan (even if stuck in angry mode) and notably Octavius J. Johnson as the teenage son.
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