Alarum, an action-thriller film that stars Sylvester Stallone, has debuted with a surprisingly poor reaction on the Rotten Tomatoes website.

There are some types of screen narratives that probably shouldn't be attempted on limited means, and "international espionage thriller" may well be one of them. That notion is illustrated by "Alarum," which features Scott Eastwood and Willa Fitzgerald as a budget "Mr.

Alarum feels like the kind of bargain bin actioner you’d pick up by chance in the halcyon days of video rentals when a couple of marquee names on a cover were enough to tempt you into a distracting 90 minutes of quasi-entertainment.