Fun as long as you check your brain at the door.

Rating: 7/10 (15 August 1999)

I enjoyed this movie even thought I'm getting tired of these kinds of movies always taking up 15 screens at a 20-screen theater. It does the job it says it will do, the effects are adequate, and the characters are funny. I strongly advise that you take some aspirin before and after you see it, because this movie is a pounding assault on the senses. I'm glad I didn't see it in a theater because everyone I talked to said that it was way too loud. I laughed when I read that Disney executive Joe Roth said that they probably wouldn't have made this movie if they would've known how expensive it was going to cost. I think what he MEANT to say was that they wouldn't have made it if they knew it was only going to make 200 million dollars in the U.S., because that was probably how much it cost. No doubt they were expecting a $300+ million super blockbuster like "Independence Day" or "Jurassic Park". Poor babies. Oh well, I don't think Bruce Willis or Michael Bay or Jerry Bruckheimer will be out of work any time soon. It's too bad Bruckheimer doesn't produce thoughtful movies like "Thief" anymore.