This movie brought me back to the 80s – not because it was set then or was cheesy but because it was action packed.  Give me a pure, unadulterated action movie over an action movie with a dying boxer or an action movie that has a dead kid before the opening credits even come on any day of the week.  It was like the action of Lethal Weapon mixed with the paranoia of Terminator 3 – and I certainly left the theatre a little paranoid.

The main character is framed as a terrorist as an impetus to do exactly as the voice at the other end of a call tells him to do.  Others are involved and death defying jumps from buildings are seen.

The movie is rated PG-13 so it lacked the gratuitous sex and nudity of the 80s movies (even though they had a perfectly good chance in a cramped but private moment in a cargo box.  Alas.) and is a good movie to watch if you want to worry about your cell phone capabilities.

Igor is a nice little movie to take your kids too – as long as you don’t mind a discussion about death afterward.  I took my oldest (8 years old) to see this PG movie and it was a little darker than I would like.  Fortunately, he’s not suicidal.  Unfortunately, an immortal cat in the movie is.  He squashes himself, blows himself up and gnaws off his limbs all the while damning Igor who had made him immortal. My son wondered why the guy didn’t want to live.

How exactly do you explain suicide?

I said, I’ll tell you when you’re older.

Now there’s a great little line I like to use to sidestep any issue.

Anyway – the movie is dark but good.  By the time we roll around to the end, the moral of the story become apparent and there is a storybook ending – even if it is a bit Frankensteinish.