A man seeking his wife's right and avenging those who killed her. In that sensational story, the police seem to have failed to arrest his wife's killer. The man begins to make plans to do something exciting and powerful to respond to the killer. The man and his old friend are avenging those who killed his wife in mysterious circumstances. Those involved in the crime know that the pair is more dangerous than they had imagined before because they seem more dangerous and violent.
It's yet another entry in the endless cycle of middle-aged vigilante rampages-a formula that no one but Liam Neeson seems capable of actually wringing entertainment from, try as his various fiftysomething peers might.
The script, besides being full of bad-guy clichés, doesn't give the actors enough opportunities to work up a buddy rapport, though the glimmers of it that they are permitted are promising.
Travolta, who took over the role from Nicolas Cage, and Meloni, who's looking more and more like Robert De Niro every day, have a loose, easy chemistry that goes a long way to enliven all that overworked familiarity.
