The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Too far fetched to be taken anywhere near seriously. Always love seeing Salma but this film becomes predictable and boring way too soon. Kill Bill does it so much better and its a shame. Salma needs more parts that give her a chance to really act. Frida is an excellent example. Hope later opportunities are better for her than this.

This movies is hilarious! The plot line vanished shortly after the movie started, but who cares, it was just too much fun. Salma is just so hot and sexy, both vulnerable and invincible. There is so much blood, gore and coincidental last second misses by her enemies that it is laughable, but again who cares because Salma is so much fun! It is a movie that works from points of extreme, Without someone as hot as Salma, the whole movie would flop. She is so fit looking, so delicious! And good with a gun. It is never clear what the movie is all about, but they say in the movie, "that's a whole lot of dead whores". That pretty much sums it up.

I was in my local video store (yes, there are still some around!) when the clerk rewarded my loyalty by giving me a free rental. My top picks were all out, and in desperation I picked up the Blu-ray of this movie. I wasn't expecting much, to be honest, just the hope that the movie would quench a little of my thirst for B movie action.Well, I wasn't expecting this! "Everly" blew away my modest expectations by being a top grade action movie. It has an interesting set-up, that being that almost all of the movie takes place in one basic location (a penthouse suite and the outside hallway). That would hamper many filmmakers trying to avoid monotony, but these filmmakers managed to do so. The action is not just plentiful, but it is filled with variety, so it never gets dull. Another reason why the action doesn't get dull is that there are some breaks in the action here and there, breaks that do things like add new twists to the plot.Speaking of the plot, I will admit that the script has some things that are hard to swallow. Although the script has Salma Hayek's character losing the upper hand several times, it eventually becomes hard to believe that for the majority of the time this initially wimpy woman again and again defeats the bad guys coming in to kill her. Also, if she has access to a telephone, why doesn't she call the FBI or the media to tell them what's happening? (For that matter, why don't the building's neighbors notice all the noise coming from the explosions and fired guns?)But if you are willing to overlook script weaknesses such as those and simply want to be thrilled and rocked by action, suspense, and mayhem, the movie does deliver. It's too bad the movie got into the hands of the Weinstein brothers, since once again they had a potential blockbuster that they didn't give much of a theatrical release (if any, that is.) But I think that with DVD, cable, and Netflix, "Everly" will build a solid cult audience over the next few years.

My dad likes to ask me sometimes regarding action movies: "Is there a purpose to all this?" There IS no purpose. The whole movie is one big, fat excuse to slam a bunch of crazy action scenes at you. As an exercise in brutal violence, it succeeds. It's got style, and it's even got some genuinely funny moments of black humour to go along with it. The movie's premise is absolutely ridiculous and stupid, and laughably insane, but it plows through it with an almost completely straight face. In that respect, the movie is a deadpan masterpiece.Anyway. Salma Hayek's acting, along with Joe Lynch's neat direction, are both too good for this type of movie. This is a modern-day exploitation film at its most blatant. This is Die Hard with Salma Hayek and the Yakuza. It's limited to one floor of an apartment building as a setting, and it's set during Christmas, and the main character is trapped in one room. Only unlike Die Hard, this movie has some truly cruel material to make you squirm in it. I mean wow.Despite its flaws (and it has a lot of them) it was an entertaining movie. It's shallow, it's not all too smart, and for people with weak stomachs, it's pretty much unwatchable. Its low- budgetness isn't all that obvious unless you REALLY look for it, and most of its effects are refreshingly practical. It's nice to see blood squibs in action movies this day and age, instead of the regular old CGI clouds we're stuck with eighty (or ninety?) percent of the time. Salma Hayek hasn't been this good since Desperado, and that was freaking 1995.