![]() A good story never grows old whether you're a Greek army trapped behind enemy lines in 400 BC or a young couple trapped in a city centre where the laws of the jungle are about to be enforced the dilemmas facing the protagonists remain the same The only real criticism I can level at TPA is that it's rather derivative and owes a lot to Anabasis by Xenophon, a very old story that Walter Hill made a career out of reworking and which recent Brit thriller '71 made use of. The first movie had an average vote of 5.6 while its sequel had an average vote of 6.5 along with many of the comments stating just how different it was from the original film, a film which incidentally could hardly have been called original itself That said one thing that really intrigued me was the large shift in positive votes. The first movie was close but no cigar down to rather lazy and ill thought plotting and since this movie was also written and directed by James DeMonaco we'd be getting more of the same except this time with an inferior and unknown cast. Reviewed by Theo Robertson 8 / 10 A Sequel That Reaches Its Full Potential. ![]()
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