Review: Magnetic Olga Kurylenko restrained by scale of ‘The Courier’

As the heroine of the chase thriller “The Courier,” Olga Kurylenko brings a lot of personal magnetism and awesome athleticism — and she needs to, because her director, Zackary Adler, has stuck her in an action movie that rarely moves. Though it’s set mostly in London, large chunks of the film take place in a featureless parking garage, where people kick and shoot at each other at close range, robbing the picture of some necessary dynamism. When she discovers that her latest assignment involves killing the key witness in an international criminal case against crime boss Ezekiel Mannings, the Courier goes rogue and becomes the witness’ protector, defending him against a succession of thugs. Oldman’s Ezekiel lays low in New York City, while a U.S. agent played by Dermot Mulroney pops up only periodically before the movie’s climactic finish.