Terrible Melodrama but...

Rating: 1/10 (3 August 2005)

The only things in this film that are worth watching, are the battle scenes. Those are actually really well done, and i'm not an "action fanatic" but the rest of the movie is bad. Sometimes there will be a performance or scene of quality, but the rest of the time its horrible. It's a real shame, because I have always been a huge Stone fan. It can be viewed as an interesting failure. But other than that... not good. It's melodramatic, over done, and who the hell was the dialog coach for the actors?!! We have Irish, Russian, American accents! I am Greek and felt that the element of dialog was laughable. Anyways, I don't recommend paying money for this overly budgeted junk, but if your friend has it or something, than skip to the action. (Which is top notch in direction)Especially the battle with the "red filter-look".