Islamic State, MI5, a deadly virus and a neck-tattooed Orlando Bloom: screenwriter Peter O’Brien throws everything at the wall in this derivative thriller. Nothing sticks. Noomi Rapace (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) is Alice Racine, an undercover agent and professional interrogator posted in an east London community centre and haunted by a terror attack she failed to prevent in Paris five years previously. Alice is called on to “unlock” a suspected terrorist but quickly realises something is awry.
With a cast of A-listers including John Malkovich, Michael Douglas and Toni Collette, not to mention Rapace herself, you’d expect at least one performance capable of cutting through the script’s sludge. Still, worth a hate-watch if only to hear Bloom’s former marine declare in full EastEnders mode: “I love a tagine.”
