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Pockmarked with clichés, director Baltasar Kormákur's action/suspense drama comes up short in every category. Paul (Dermot Mulroney) and Diane (Diane Kruger) are a married couple with a ten-year-old daughter who desperately needs a lung transplant.

A tip provided by an ethically challenged doctor (played by Rosanna Arquette) sends Paul on a mission to Mexico to arrange for a black market lung transplant for daughter Chloe. The movie is all over the place. Paul doesn't make for the most responsible patriarchal protagonist, and every exaggerated plot point, comes with a neon flashing sign to announce it.

Sam Shepherd puts in a welcome, if overqualified, cameo to deposit some capital-E exposition for two screenwriters who ought never to be heard from on the big screen again.

Most unforgivable is the film's hokey third-act, which goes over-the-top backwards in order to show the connection between the recently deceased (read, murdered) organ donors and their North American recipients. Even the film's vaguely relevant title tips its hand as piece of hackwork.

Not Rated. 83 mins.