ALL THE OLD KNIVES

Based on the novel of the same name, the film takes place in 2014 in Vienna, Austria that follows a group of CIA agents stationed there. Turkish Airlines flight 127 has been hijacked and is on the tarmac as the terrorists are threatening to kill everyone onboard unless their demands are met. Henry Pelham (Chris Pine) and Celia Harrison (Thandiwe Newton) professionally are coworkers within the group and unprofessionally, lovers. The terrorists follow through with their plans and the story fast forwards to 8 years later, where the terrorist leader has been captured and claims there was a mole within their Vienna CIA group who aided him to carry out the attack. Henry is assigned to investigate, reuniting with Celia, who's since married with 2 children. They meet at a fancy but secluded California restaurant where Henry has to semi-interrogate Celia to rule her out as a suspect. Henry has unanswered questions that could make Celia a suspect while Celia has unanswered questions of her own that could make Henry a suspect. The story does enough to hold the audiences attention throughout and Pine and Newton have passable onscreen chemistry; however, once the mole is revealed and their reasoning for doing so, it comes off limp and doesn't hold the shock value the writer or cast I'm sure where hoping for. A decent film that will quickly be forgotten for not bringing much to the table and once again, Amazon Prime offers their audience mediocre entertainment. 5/10