“The 2nd” (** out of four) was a fairly routine action potboiler about a world-weary secret service agent (Ryan Phillippe) who is on his way to pick up his estranged son (Jack Griffo) from college when they both find themselves besieged by a psychopathic terrorist (Casper Van Dien) who will stop at nothing to kill his son and his friend (Lexi Simonsen) who is the daughter of a prominent Supreme Court judge. Moves relatively quickly and features the requisite amount of firepower and gunplay but doesn’t offer much we haven’t seen before. Not bad but overall pretty 2nd-rate.

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