New York, St. Patrick's Cathedral. In the midst of worship, FBI officers enter the temple and arrest a man with the biblical name Ezekiel, the owner of a chain of fashionable hotels and part-time important criminal authority (Gary Oldman).

Before being arrested, Ezekiel Mannings instructs his daughter to contact her henchmen in London to remove a guy named Nick Moorch. The poor man became an involuntary witness to the murder committed by Mannings in his own office, and now can testify against the businessman.

Meanwhile, in London, Nick Moorch, along with law enforcement officers, arrives in a special room, from where a teleconference with US bailiffs will soon begin. Murch is preparing to testify against Mannings, and the corrupt Interpol agent is preventing him from doing so. She is waiting for the courier who will bring the package with cyanide necessary to eliminate Murkh.

Olga Kurylenko works in the courier delivery service - an anonymous character, in the background of which they decided not to devote the viewer especially. She, not knowing it herself, brings the parcel with the poisonous substance to the addressee, but as a result, everyone but her and Murkh die. Now, an hour of screen time, the courier and the witness will be hiding in the parking lot from another Mannings assistant, Agent Bryant (William Moseley).

Zachary Adler, obviously, was more interested in brutal fights - the plot is so fresh that the viewer will be bored of watching all his turns (they probably should not even think about it - the script does not pass the logic test). The situation is aggravated by pathos and completely meaningless dialogs, poorly mounted tricks and the absence of at least some colorful characters.

In “Courier”, in accordance with the spirit of the time, there is a theme of feminism - but it is revealed extremely poorly. The feminist tone of the picture was supposedly created due to meager male images, and not thanks to the deep female character.

One gets the impression that the Courier was filmed simply for the sake of being ranked as an action movie in which the main characters are women.

Involuntarily, a comparison with the "explosive blonde" Charlize Theron or the Black Widow performed by Scarlett Johansson. Pictures about both heroines are based on graphic novels, and for comics (and their adaptations), the world of the “explosive blonde” and Natasha Romanoff, with all its shortcomings, is very real.

The courier, like Widow and an agent of the British MI6 (“explosive blonde”), is brilliantly physically prepared (Kurilenko worked with stuntmen for a long time and studied combat choreography), however, the heroine’s motivation and story as a whole look unconvincing, and the enigma built around her past - meaningless. Although the viewer will still be able to find out that Kurylenko had fought in Syria before, but for personal reasons she deserted and was, according to her, “outside the system”.

  • Shot from the movie “Courier”
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The antagonist in the person of Gary Oldman will appear in the frame only a few times, most of the time viewers will watch how an agent named Bryant acts on his behalf. It is he who will come up with a trap in the parking lot, but, oddly enough, he will not be able to calculate the forces.

The abrupt change of image from a romantic hero to a corrupt neurotic special agent may even pleasantly surprise many familiar with Mosley’s work in The Chronicles of Narnia, but this character was surprisingly flat and ridiculous.

Neither Dermot Mulroney, declared in the caste (who appeared in the predictably unexpected, but stupid final scene), nor Kurilenko’s appearance on the bike (although her figure in tight-fitting jumpsuit the spectator will have to contemplate indecently often and for a long time) do not save the tape.

Largely because of the scene - the closed London car park - the film especially needed well-set fights, the disclosure of personal drama and sharp plot twists. However, for unclear circumstances, Adler’s picture did not become a dynamic chamber action movie and turned into a rather boring sight with characters whose fate, alas, is deeply indifferent to the viewer.