Could have been better

Rating: 6/10 (20 May 2007)

Why is the question.
Why the Americans? Why the kids? Why the heroic soldier? Why wasn't Robert "Begby" Carlyle used better? Why was it so predictable? Why was there so much night-vision filming? Why was it not that scary?
The answer is, it smacks of a wannabe franchise.
The computer game industry will be licking their lips at the prospect of another shoot-em-up.
I like this film but not enough to like the intentions that are surrounding it and believe that it was not necessary to make a sequel and we await a third, more international flavoured, instalment.
One big positive for it the direction and cinematography. Be prepared to see a vision of London that has never been shown on the big screen before.