Meeting an old friend challenges the life of Robert Clayton, a successful lawyer, who has enjoyed a comfortable life with his small family, turns down his life, as he tells him new information related to the mysterious murder of a state man, the thing that brings terrible for him with a FBI agent.
Add Smith's lippy innocent and a host of subcontracted indie fresh faces, and you have the Bruckheimer formula: loud, lavish, seemingly efficient; over-large, over-long, over-plotted. Safe and sorry.
From there, with the mystery entirely gone and the thrills fading fast, the rest is pretty much a two-hour chase sequence, culminating in a hilariously maladroit shoot-out.