The Prince movie review: You keep hoping therein may lie a tale

Not surprisingly, Paul’s first stop is a friend of Beth, Angela, who may know where she could be. Surprisingly though, Angela hangs around, and around, even as Paul heads into territory where little girls don’t belong. Unless the whole idea is to throw in unsettling scenes of Angela cavorting with a pole and coming on to Paul. Nothing comes of it eventually, which doesn’t leave you feeling any good about either Angela or Paul.

Bruce Willis is Omar, the kind of ganglord who gives long speeches about “one’s name counting for a lot in this business” before shooting people down into own swimming pool. Come to think of it, why would anyone do that? He bears a special grudge towards ‘The Prince’, and the whole plot is designed to propel them towards each other.

That includes Omar’s determined sidekick Mark, played to full-on martial-art cliches by Korean pop singer Rain (as Jung Ji-Hoon). Mark’s doe eyes are almost eyeliner-adorned, and as he hangs around Willis’s weather-worn Omar, you keep hoping therein may lie a tale. That we may have been looking at the wrong ‘Prince’. Fat chance.