Man, I wanted to love this movie! I saw this on a suggestion of my mother. We usually have the same taste! Granted, the first half hour of this was really good! I'm not going to lie, I thought I was in for some suspenseful, riveting picture. I was even going to write it off as a poor man's Seven.
The film follows Cuba Gooding Jr. playing a Private Investigator who's girlfriend gets murdered by some guy who reminds me of a younger Malcolm McDowell. Seriously, I give the film props for having this guy play the villain because he was good at it. Cuba finds McDowell-lookalike running down the street but when Cuba catches up to him, the man has super human strength and somehow Cuba just goes airborne every time he hits him. I'm not sure if his super human strength is ever explained, but it sure was odd seeing Cuba fly around everywhere after McDowell-lookalike hits him.
So after Cuba makes a report to his police buddies (who makes fun of him), he decides to go snooping around to the place where he fought the McDowell-lookalike again. Sure enough, he had dropped a book. Coincidentally enough, it lists all the people he is going to kill and what date.
So Cuba takes it to the police, the police investigates it, finds the woman he is about to kill, and arrests him before it happens....... Oh, I'm sorry, that would have been too logical and the movie would have been over: Instead, he takes it to his best friend who doesn't even acknowledge the fact that Cuba showed it to him, the bad guy magically transports to Cuba's home to get the book back, and the cops think that Cuba is the murderer. What an idiot.
Then as the police are searching for him, Cuba befriends some kid. I really don't remember the reasoning behind all this or if it was even a good one, but let's just say there is a connection to the murders. That's where the plot twist comes in. The plot twist was so asinine that it's hard to put into words to avoid ruining for those who are still curious to see this movie. Imagine the movie Se7en, with all those seven deadly sin murders and who it could possibly be. Now instead of the killer that was revealed at the end, imagine it being an evil alien bent on world domination. At that point, you would ask yourself, "When did this movie start becoming science fiction and why?" Ticking Clock is the same way. It's a lot like it wanted to be The Terminator. The concept is cool, but the execution is way off.
Cuba, what's wrong with you? Was there really no good roles after Jerry Maguire? Okay, there might have been promise with the script. I'm sure you read the script and was like, "This will be my comeback!" As I'm sure it was pretty cool to read. But direct to DVD? I sure hope you find that comeback, or there's a Cop Drama with your name on it.
The film follows Cuba Gooding Jr. playing a Private Investigator who's girlfriend gets murdered by some guy who reminds me of a younger Malcolm McDowell. Seriously, I give the film props for having this guy play the villain because he was good at it. Cuba finds McDowell-lookalike running down the street but when Cuba catches up to him, the man has super human strength and somehow Cuba just goes airborne every time he hits him. I'm not sure if his super human strength is ever explained, but it sure was odd seeing Cuba fly around everywhere after McDowell-lookalike hits him.
So after Cuba makes a report to his police buddies (who makes fun of him), he decides to go snooping around to the place where he fought the McDowell-lookalike again. Sure enough, he had dropped a book. Coincidentally enough, it lists all the people he is going to kill and what date.
So Cuba takes it to the police, the police investigates it, finds the woman he is about to kill, and arrests him before it happens....... Oh, I'm sorry, that would have been too logical and the movie would have been over: Instead, he takes it to his best friend who doesn't even acknowledge the fact that Cuba showed it to him, the bad guy magically transports to Cuba's home to get the book back, and the cops think that Cuba is the murderer. What an idiot.
Then as the police are searching for him, Cuba befriends some kid. I really don't remember the reasoning behind all this or if it was even a good one, but let's just say there is a connection to the murders. That's where the plot twist comes in. The plot twist was so asinine that it's hard to put into words to avoid ruining for those who are still curious to see this movie. Imagine the movie Se7en, with all those seven deadly sin murders and who it could possibly be. Now instead of the killer that was revealed at the end, imagine it being an evil alien bent on world domination. At that point, you would ask yourself, "When did this movie start becoming science fiction and why?" Ticking Clock is the same way. It's a lot like it wanted to be The Terminator. The concept is cool, but the execution is way off.
Cuba, what's wrong with you? Was there really no good roles after Jerry Maguire? Okay, there might have been promise with the script. I'm sure you read the script and was like, "This will be my comeback!" As I'm sure it was pretty cool to read. But direct to DVD? I sure hope you find that comeback, or there's a Cop Drama with your name on it.