Absolute shocker of a film.
Honestly felt like it was written by a 12yr old, who's eaten too much sugar, after watching Batman, James Bond, Silence of the Lambs, Saw and Along came a Spider.. mix that with the past-trend Scandi-Dramas and boom, you've got a terrible film, with more plot holes, movie clichés and scenes with impossible sequences that came from or go nowhere.
I imagine this was written in a similar environment to Del Boy and Rodney's 'There's a Rhino loose in the City' or 'The Island of Death'
'Idris Elba? Now you're talking like a mogul!'
10 Mins from London to Dover?
Why didn't his cell contents burn?
Massive Mansion in the middle of nowhere?
Warehouse full of 'Hackers' - Where did they go?
20 Prisoners and 30 Riot Guards, no problem. But 1 middle aged man?
Water on a Kerosene fire?
Hypothermia?
Divers on a helicopter?
Fake Snow?
Sheer number and condition of victims (all looked recent)?
Skin Colour changing Mannequins?
Decades of planning a multi-million pound scheme, undone because he grinds his teeth?
...And how he managed to figure out the plot and motive from literally nothing, was nuts.
You could take 200 clips from any of those above films, add in a few nods to The Shining, American Werewolf in London, Running Man, in fact any film from the last 40 years, string them together, and you'd end up with the same product.
Andy Serkis and Idris Elba's class stood out, but I bet neither will be putting this on their CV!
Oh, and 'Chief'...Please don't let there be a sequel....