This film is simply -talk talk talk talk boom boom boom boom-

Rating: 7/10 (7 July 2005)

I was expecting a lot from this film since the rating for this movie was above 8. I mean how many films in IMDb got ratings above 8? Not many.
I would have to say 8 is exaggeration. I would give it about 7. The reason being the way the director put together the whole film is so dull and obvious. Putting the heaps of 'talking' stuff in the beginning and all the exciting action part comes later towards the end. It's as if the director is telling the audience 'all right, here's the background story that you 'must' know,-talk talk talk talk talk- now here comes the 'Action'-boom boom boom boom boom-!'the end.
Look at films like LOTR:ROTK. Peter Jackson puts the battle scenes evenly throughout the whole film and in between are the scenes that attempts to 'tell' us the story behind all the battle. This way the director fulfills his responsibility of delivering the story as well as putting in actions which makes the film 'exciting'. Or maybe it's easily said than done.
In my opinion putting all the actions evenly throughout the film would have made the film a masterpiece. The action part was definitely worth watching. The acting was very well done too. Overall its good film but it's not quite up there yet.