This example, filled with unimaginative implausibilities and an absurd premise, lets everyone down.

FORBES: Connect

The clunky plot continues to be riddled with implausibilities, and the movie runs a slack two hours and thirty-four minutes.

NEWYORKER: The Firm

The dispatcher, having started out as a klutz so ordinary that he wears a tie and a sleeveless sweater, morphs into an action hero, which is just one of a cluster of wild implausibilities that crowd out the cogency of the film.

NEWYORKER: The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

Yet the film is beset by incoherence and implausibilities that are perplexing, given the close relationship between the Wachowskis and the director, Mr. McTeigue -- this is not one of those familiar cases, it's safe to say, where the writers lost control of their material when it went into production.

WSJ: 'Vendetta' Is Violent and Vapid

The moral motion of the film is fairly simple the return, and redemption, of a prodigal son but Gray steeps his tale in murky complication, and the staging of every scene, be it downbeat or frantic, is so assured that you barely notice the implausibilities. (Bobby and Joseph, for instance, hardly look like brothers.) The rain-drenched car chase, halfway through, is reason enough to see the film.

NEWYORKER: We Own the Night