What can you say?

Rating: 6/10 (17 April 2002)

Let me start with the good....
The cinematography in the film is beautiful. The filtering and such really did give the viewer the sense of being there. The same goes for the sound. Recorded and mixed really well. This is what you should get production-wise for a big budgeted film.
Now to the actual film itself....
Plain and simple , it sucks. To steal from Gertrude Stein, there is no 'there' there. It's nothing but two plus hours of stuff blowing up and bullets whizzing by. There is nearly nothing going on at all from a storyline sense, just pure action scenes. Granted, this was based upon an actual event; however, if you were going to pick a historical story one might like to choose one that has some substance to it.
All in all, you get what you might expect from it. It's a Bruckheimer film, you don't need to say much more than that, although it's probably a little less entertaining than some of his stuff. If your into movies that really don't require their audiences to think at all you might enjoy this. If not, stay away from it, unless you just want to check out the high end production quality.