Everybody should love Jason Isaacs and Melissa George. He is one of the nicest, funniest people you could ever hope to meet and has never, to our recollection, been bad in anything, even when the movie around him is sucking like a toothless hooker with a bus to catch. And she, though never having had a lead role in anything you'd describe as better than average, always seems sweet and deserves to be a lot bigger than she is. So it's with mixed feelings that we announce that the pair have joined the latest film from Jan De Bont, Stopping Power.
De Bont was once director of the greatest action movie of the nineties. Speed, of course. Since then he's been frantically trying to undo all the good will gained from that movie and been doing a grand old job of it. When we heard he was making Meg, the story of a giant shark (it probably had more plot than that, but we drifted off into revels of boats being eaten whole at that point) we thought that might be his return to great fun action cinema. But then that went down the pooper.
Stopping Power doesn't have anything like as grabby a plot, being the story of a man racing to rescue his kidnapped daughter. And yet. And yet, it does have hope. The film already has John Cusack signed for the lead and Cusack doesn't generally sign on for any old rubbish. Please, Mr De Bont, take a lead from your cast and try to be really good this time. You're better than The Haunting, you know you are.