Accountant Johnny Depp is told he has 90 minutes, and six bullets, to murder the governor of California or his daughter will be killed, in director John Badham's weak Hitchcock-inspired suspense thriller. Supposedly playing out the shock predicament in real-time, with lots of close-ups of clocks - it clearly isn't real-time, however - Badham consistently fluffs the tension by accenting the preposterous plot contrivances rather than creating any real empathy with the plight of the characters. Even the usually engaging Depp can't rescue this thriller.

An ordinary man is suddenly forced into a plot to kill a politician in exchange for his kidnapped daughter's freedom.