It is OK. A decent action movie including Butler, CIA, Iran, drones, nuclear, etc... Could be a little shorter but it's no big deal. 7.5/10 PS:Respects to Roman aka Ragnar!

just your generic pile of trash

Not Butlers worst movie...but it's far duller than it should have been. Watch The Covenant instead.

What is it with movie studios....? Two films with broadly similar premises within a month or two of each other. For 30 odd years, they've done this. Just watch The Covenant, it's the better film of these two. This one is short on action and long on tedium. 4/10 2/5

The movie starts by depicting a cowardly, catastrophic and hypocritical act by a CIA agent as heroic, as expected from this type of movies. However, by the end of the movie, the movie succeeds in making you feel the main character is the hero and victim rather than a criminal, as he shares some emotional and insightful lines and fights to protect himself and his mission buddy. Despite the overlaying political messages, the movie did a somewhat decent job humanizing some of the conflicting parties rather than just blanket-painting every one of them as the same evil barbarians, and even alludes to the US's mistakes, failures, and misguided actions. So although the idea of the film might seem tired, I think this one had some good touches to make it a little more unique.