My wife and I were looking for something fun on a Friday night that would keep us entertained over pizza and beer. We've got a six month old, not much time, and even less attention span. We stumbled across Insight on iTunes and it managed to fit the bill perfectly. Honestly, in a time when every action movie is overly long and ponderously serious, it's refreshing to find something like this that's just a briskly paced popcorn flick with something eye catching in every scene.
Ken Zheng plays a clairvoyant counter-terrorism expert investigating the death of his brother in LA. It turns out things are more complicated than they first appear, and Zheng has to team up with Madeline Zima to take on diabolical bad guy Sean Patrick Flanery and his vicious henchman, Adam Huss. Foot chases, car chases, shootouts, fist fights, explosions, and psychic stuff ensue. Does it all make perfect sense? Nope. Does it have to? Nope. This is about good guys and bad guys settling scores and reading minds.
The ending leaves room for a sequel, which I'm looking forward to. The rapid fire plot left little space for much backstory or B-story, so hopefully some of the other characters can grow as the world building continues. (Huss' performance was convincingly menacing, and it'd be nice to see him have the chance to turn the threat level up to 11.)
All told, we enjoyed ourselves. Pour yourself a drink (or two) and have fun with this flick on a Friday night like we did.
