SECURITY is low on originality, medium on clashing fight scenes with guns and bombs and fire and a bit maudlin in the end when the father/daughter concept finally adds some human interest. Otherwise this 'made for action lovers' film, written by Tony Mosher and John Sullivan and directed by Alain Desrochers is a sidebar t the careers of tow fine actors – Antonio Banderas (in fine shape physically) and Ben Kingsley.

An ex-special services veteran (Antonio Banderas), down on his luck and desperate for work, takes a job as a security guard at a run-down mall in a rough area of town. He is introduced to the motley crew of security guards (Liam McIntyre, Gabriella Wright, Chad Lindberg, Jiro Wang). On his first night on the job, he opens the doors up to a distraught and desperate young girl Jamie (Katherine de la Rocha) who has escaped and fled from a hijacking of the Police motorcade that was transporting her to testify as a trial witness in a briefcase. Hot on her heels is psychopathic hijacker (Ben Kingsley), alongside his resourceful henchmen, who will stop at nothing to extract and eliminate their witness.

That is the bare bones of a story that is basically one of shooting, fire, explosions, murder, and all the other derring-do that builds a story based on the chased and the chaser. It gets repetitive but Banderas and Kingsley (and Liam McIntyre) are strong enough to hold or interest.

This movie might be considered a B-movie because of the budget and released straight to DVD, but honestly, it's a really good movie. Antonio Banderas is underrated, and should really be given the chance to go back to mainstream, especially action films.

The movie isn't perfect, and characters could've been fleshed out more but other than that, this is a nice movie to watch on a lazy afternoon on your day off.

The action sequences are great. Ben Kingsley, another underrated actor, was also great.

It's a well-done action movie with a simple story. If you want to be entertained for an hour and 45mins, this is not a bad choice.

One wouldn't imagine that Banderas would take a role like this but he pulls it off.Combat skills are convincing enough and the story line is predictable but entertaining.The budget is not huge given that entire film was shot in one location but the videography was nicely done.I would have preferred a different ending altogether but the film was enjoyable and worth the time.

I fall for it every time. A film I've never heard of that's starring a couple of respected actors which has been released straight to DVD . When am I going to learn that there's a bloody good reason why these films come out of nowhere with little or no publicity ? Antonio Banderas is a shopping mall security guard who has to protect a child trial witness from a psychopathic criminal and his gang of soldiers looking to stop her testifying against them.

In recent years there have been a few actors who have reinvented themselves with hard guys characters. Sadly I don't think this film is going to do anything for the career of Antonio Banderas or Ben Kingsley come to think of it. The film starts with the criminals attacking and killing a convoy of US Marshalls yet as the film progresses they ridiculously get taken out by a bunch of overly stupid shopping mall security guards as well as Banderas who is ex forces of course. Not heard that scenario before! At times it feels like Home Alone with their homemade booby traps but sadly nowhere near as entertaining. Once you get past all the juxtaposition and unintended comedy it isn't that bad but I still wish I hadn't bothered.

There is nothing sophisticated or clever in this film. All very banal, and of course full of unrealistic sequence of events.

Nevertheless, Banderas plays quite well, and the film is generally enjoyable.

Best watching this in the background of doing something else, or while relaxing from a long day of work.

This was a waste of time for the most part. The only redeeming factor was the action, which honestly was above average. Also Banderas gives a pretty solid performance. Everything else sucked.

Screenplay and dialogue are idiotic and check every cliché. I think they were intentionally trying to imitate cheesy dialogue from the 80s, but it didn't fit with the tone of the film. Tired hurting veteran who just wants to be a normal guy while everything around him is despair and darkness. Whereas the 80s action hero is the exact opposite of this. A happy go lucky guy who kicks bad guy ass daily and it's what fulfils him as a person. He might have a few problems but he never lets it affect his flamboyance and humor. The result is something really weird that just perpetually keeps you out of place.

It's a shame really, because the premise was interesting, and they could have worked a lot more with it. The mall and all the resources it contains are barely used beyond a couple scenes. Ben Kingsley performs a ruthless villain, but he's never given the chance to shine. Everyone along the ride with Banderas could have done a better job if they were coordinated better by the director. Most egregious is that most of the bad guys aren't killed by clever traps or the unexpected tactical skills of the good guys. It's just Banderas sliding and pirhouetting around who kills most of them, and he does it so easily it's almost supernatural.

There's a lot of issues with the pacing. It's clockwork really. 5 minute build-up, 5 minutes action, 5 minutes slow exposition and here we start again. Most of the time the characters aren't doing anything. They are just sitting around not being prepared. Then just before the action starts they start running around like headless chickens. The exposition part is really lame. Most of the time they were talking I was just cringing.

All in all, it's not the worst film ever. It's a B-movie after all. But it's not a very enjoyable one. There's far better things to do with your time, than to watch this.

I read somewhere that someone reviewed this title and referred to it as "Die Hard in a mall". This is way off in my opinion. If it is to be compared to any movie I would go with "Home Alone", such is the puerile and paper-thin plot.

Despite fairly good acting on behalf of the leads, Banderas and Kingsley, the script just fails to deliver, and in an effort, it seems to compensate, the director pulls out every cinematic cliché he could muster from his film school playbook.

Watching this film, you cannot help but think that at any second you will hear the director yell "Cut" and we will have realized that it was all just a parody of an action film that is pretend being shot as part of the real movie which now is about to begin.

The story is all too familiar, the action scenes are sub par, and save for the two big stars the acting is poor. Save your time re-watch Die Hard or Home Alone... you're welcome.

No F bombs, drug scenes, or blaring rap music and a pretty good story. There are more casualties on both sides which probably killed the potential BO. But besides very little plausibility, it was exciting throughout, Antonio Banderas has too much of an accent and was a bit hard to understand, so this killed his action hero future. The acting was good and Ben Kingsley did his usual bad guy role with aplomb. My major problem was the entire movie is filmed fairly dark. It is all at night and the mall scenes are mostly without full lighting. Kind of gets claustrophobic after awhile.

This movie was enjoyable - specifically the story-line, but it lost its major appeal and potential with a poor screenplay with many plot holes, sub-par directing, and the choice of some of its actors.

The only decent actors in this film were Ben Kingsley playing the odd-ball villain Charlie, of which he's done before so I'm used to him, and the little girl Jamie played by Katherine de la Rocha.

Liam McIntyre as Vance (mostly in the 1st half of the film) and Chad Lindberg as Mason where just the wrong actors for their roles, or the wrong roles for those actors. Then there was that ninja mercenary who was just really unnecessary.

Now to be clear, I am a big fan of Antonio Banderas (Eduardo "Eddie" Deacon), but this was not the role for him. Playing the Mall Cop meets Jason Bourne was very unconvincing, especially during the fight scenes. Additionally, putting him in roles that he has to whisper is a mistake, because I can barely understand his dialog with his accent.

The screenplay and directing where very confused in what they were trying to accomplish. Had this movie been serious throughout, with convincing and appropriate actors/roles, this would have been a hit. But unfortunately, having Chad Lindberg play the big baby-nerd role, and Liam McIntyre with those dumb sideburns and annoying dialog at the beginning, I couldn't take this film seriously, especially after seeing that ninja mercenary with the dual samurai swords that he never even used. Had their roles been as serious or convincing as the sniper, or Gabriella Wright (Ruby), it would have kept me in suspense and enjoyment from start to finish.

Overall, the story is what kept me interested the most, and for that, it's a 7/10 from me.

This production by Millennium Films (the Cannon Films of the 21st century) initially has some interest because it's clearly heavily influenced by two movies. The first and most obvious is "Die Hard", but it is clear the filmmakers got some inspiration from the John Carpenter movie "Assault on Precinct 13". But while this combination gives the movie an initially interesting start, it soon becomes clear that the filmmakers had little else to jazz up this tired movie. It takes forever for it to get going, and once it does, the energy level is surprisingly flat for the most part. Even the final confrontation is a letdown. The script is extremely predictable; you'll be a few steps ahead of the characters at any point. The combination of the flat screenplay and direction probably explain why stars Antonio Banderas and Ben Kingsley both phone in their performances. Oh, there are a few unintended laughs, like how the shopping mall interior is clearly a very cheap construction on a sound stage somewhere in Bulgaria. And I admit the movie, while being extremely predictable, is not really boring. But for the most part, the movie is utterly forgettable; it'll afterwards evaporate completely from your memory within hours.

Simply not a home alone movie but more of a assault on precinct 13 set in a mall. The negative reviews simply don't do this movie justice. I saw this movie after Transformers 5 with my 12 year old and wow it was refreshing and entertaining from start to end the complete opposite of Transformers for which I switched off after 25 minutes and was on the phone searching through eBay adds. Lol.

Great execution by director and an impressive performance by all the cast. Very impressed by Antonio Banderas who shows his worth. He has returned to his roots from when I first saw him in desperado. Again good casting all round and acting was above par.

The story is simple with good pace and execution. Good TV movie that keeps you wanting till the end. I have reviewed this 9/10 just because of the budget and it's really made for TV

Nothing in this movie seem to line up at all...the fight scenes are somewhere between kung fu panda and save private Ryan...the gun-handling is terrible as well as the tactics what makes even me as a civilian question the consulting and supervision on set. what the heck is Ben kingsley doing there? who is that guy from riddick jumping around with curved blades? he survived attack on him so where was he the remaining movie? the second riddick guy - or is that him? how is he supposed to fight between gunmen with blades? kingsley commanded 2 snipers on position. one was taken out by bond-eras with a mateba 357 (prevously referred to as an FN 57) on a distance that looked something around 300 yds. but where is the second guy...just vanished? how the hack didn't the snipers see the mall cops lighting a couch on the malls rooftop?

an how the hell is banderas surviving a hit by a snipers .50 cal?

bollywood for retards

This film was no great shakes, it was better than some say and worse than others. As others have mentioned it was the presence of Banderas and Kingsley that lifted it above average, but some of the other relatively unknown actors did quite well. But it is the ignorance shown by the reviewers when comparing it to other movies which is laughable and compelled me to write this review. This movie isn't like Die Hard, or Terminator or Robocop or any of the other silly comparisons and if this movie resembled any other it is like a b movie remake of Assault on Precinct 13

I would like to start off with the actors who executed amazing scenes in the movies! Scenes were action packed and there were no deep loving connections to antagonist! I wouldn't bother writing a review if it wasn't good but since the ratings at pretty low, I think this deserves my review!

In summary, if you were looking for a movie where a war veteran is playing defend the castle with amateurs to defend it. The outcome is pretty interesting! The plot was straight forward, many of the scenes reminded me of John Wick but not as badass but still at his level, and also how everything came together in the end. Very entertaining movie! Very underrated!

Here's the cons of the movie, in every movie there are those moments where why didn't the main character do this or notice that. Well there of course are those in here and no movie will hide this so that's of course one star gone. Another con is, really some, not many of the action scenes were not on par of John Wick!

I highly recommend this if you are into action like John Wick!

Enjoyed the "Hollywood" fantasy. Sure, it's a little far fetched, but that movie making, not reality TV. Enjoy the ride. Don't be too critical. Some good acting. A good story. Some interesting techniques I'd not seen before or maybe just not remember seeing. I just let it roll, having an open mind for what was unfolding. Just enjoy the movie. Action.

The movie is full of Hollywood's bullshit. Bulletproof good guys with excessive military experience and skills of professional stuntmen....and stupid bad guys, who run after the remote controlled car, kill the potential hostage and don't kill the good guy just because of the scenario.

A host of trained hitmen and armed US Marshall's couldn't stop this crowd of crazed villains, but never fear, they were no match for Banderas and an 11 year old girl. ..and if thats the type of film you find exciting and believable then this is one for you, as for me I am glad I had the fast forward button, the first half hour was good and promising, the rest was duh and pathetic.

Former ex-Special Forces Captain Eddie Deacon (Banderas) takes a job in a Mall and allows 12-yr old or so Jaime (Katherine de la Rocha) to come in as she is running from bad guys headed by Charlie (Kingsley) who does not want her to testify against him.

You knew where it was going from the very minute Eddie opens those doors to Jaime. Although Vance (Liam McIntyre) was in charge of security, he realizes he is out of his league and lets Eddie run the show when Charlie confronts both at the doors.

With seemingly over-whelming force Charlie meets resistance led by Eddie and the rest of the Mall security force. The task was made more difficult as Charlie had cut off all telephone lines so help could not come from outside. The stunts and shooting were good. What I especially liked was the expressions of fear within the security people as they made everything seem quite real. Can't blame them as this would be the case with almost anyone in that situation. The suspense and tension throughout was very good. Hey, I was looking for a place to hide too. Great work.

You still looking for a twist? Well, there was one almost, but Eddie figured it out when U.S. Marshalls came to the Mall in what appeared to be a grateful rescue.

All in all, not bad and Ben Kingsley and Antonio Banderas make this movie credible. Katherine de la Rocha does a very good job as the youngster running for her life and not knowing who to trust. (7/10)

Violence: Yes. Sex; No. Nudity: No. Language: Yes, there is some, but not much.

Why oh why are Antonio B and Ben K in this utterly predictable (I knew the ending after 35 minutes down to the exact scene), lame and unoriginal film? Boring, pointless and without anything new, Security is mostly the same as Denzel W's The Equalizer. Except it's not nearly as good. After Gandhi, Mr K always plays bad guys. Psycho bad guys if possible. And Mr B is a fine actor (who can forget his Puss 'n Boots? ;) ) who can really bring mystery and menace to a role. But this? It gives turkeys a bad name.

This has got to be THE worst premise for a movie ever!!! Mall security guards vs trained army of assassins??? Mall security guards win??? Are you kidding??? You have Antonio Banderas and Ben Kingsley, both of which are great actors. They decide to be in this truly awful film??? What were their agents thinking? They are deserving of much better roles in REAL movies. Security is low budget all the way through. Poorly written, ridiculous concept of a script. The sets are laughably cheap. The supposed "Mall" is obviously not a mall at all. All the set design in this film seems cheap and unrealistic. With the exception of Banderas and Kingsley, ALL the other actors are terrible. Like a student film. The characters are weak and one dimensional. The cinematography and editing are good but the story and cheap sets pull the whole thing down. I was actually laughing through this entire film. It starts out bad and ends up totally absurd. I really don't understand how this movie got funded and green lit. You would have to be a complete moron to take this film seriously or care about these characters in peril. Its a joke, a real stinker. Avoid watching this. You will never get the time back and be truly disappointed.

This movie was awful & I mean really awful. It starts off OK but when things starts to go wrong, the movie itself starts to go wrong. At one point, I felt i was watching a comedy movie even when the scenes were being shown quite seriously & there was actually no comedy. The Action scenes were also very bad.

Hate to see actors like Antonio Banderas & Ben Kingsley in such a bad movie.

Just stay away from this if don't want to waste your precious time.

Just like his character who was overqualified for the role of security officer, Banderas is overqualified for this TV movie. Overall not bad, but not good.

Enjoyed the film. There were elements of Assault on Precinct 13, with a sample of the theme music added in at one point too. Banderas was OK but Kingsley's accent varied from Irish to Scottish at times. Not a bad way to spend 90 minutes and better some would have you believe. Action was just right and there were some unintentional funny moments too. Characters were enjoyable and the undertones were a bit obvious at times. Enjoy it with the family.

Firstly don't believe the bad hype that people are saying about this film. Yes it's a straight to DVD movie for some big stars but all in all it is a good action packed movie. Okay now the bad points, the bad are your typical non thought out bad guys, nothing to say and just miss people with their shots. The characters are not fleshed out, the movie should have been on for longer and the story padded out more. I wanted to learn more about Antonio Banderas' s character. Some good points. The action scenes were quite well done, Banderas done a good job playing the hero, to me the role really suited him, I am hoping he does more films like these and they get made with a bigger budget. Film directors take note, you could have a new.action star here. Banderas looked the part, slim in size, beard, looked the part alright. The story was okay, trying to take a Die Hard style movie as in having most of the movie take place in one place. See this film it was a good movie, I was mot disappointed, well only that the film was a sort one.

Another one of those big name Hollywood actors does budget film movie. It was what I expected.. Something to put on in the background. Highly unbelievable. The kids walkie talkie that's used can only get like 30ft in real life.. I know, I have used one.. let alone work in a built up mall... and speaking of mall, it looked nothing of a nth American Mall. More like a set for a stage production. I think they said "built in the 80s and never upgraded" to explain the dire look of the mall.

could have been better,.. .then again, it could have been worse..