Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
An ex-special services veteran, 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. On his first night on the job, he opens the door to a distraught and desperate young girl who has fled the hijacking of a Police motorcade that was transporting her to testify as a witness in a trial. Hot on her heels is the psychopathic hijacker and his team of henchmen, who will stop at nothing to extract and eliminate the witness.
Security is a formulaic Die Hard-in-a-mall clone that offers little originality in conception or execution. Antonio Banderas does what he can with thin material, but the acting is broadly serviceable at best. The cinematography is competent but unremarkable for a low-budget action-thriller, with no distinctive visual choices. The plot is entirely predictable, recycling the isolated-location siege formula without meaningful variation. The ending delivers satisfactory resolution expected of the genre, which is perhaps its strongest element, wrapping up the action beats adequately if without surprise.