not bad but nicholas cage ruined it

Rating: 6/10 (17 February 2002)

A good story, beautiful settings and you can't go wrong putting both John Hurt and Penelope Lopez in a movie. But we were only a couple of minutes in when Nicholas Cage appeared, said his first lines and I was cringeing. I think it was partly what he was asked to do and say and partly his overacted delivery but somehow, for me anyway, he just wasn't right for the part.
I had a problem with the accents too. Cage was playing an Italian so spoke English with a strange Italian accent. Hurt played a Greek with an English accent. Cruz played a Greek woman so spoke English with a Spanish accent! Can't remember the Germans because as usual in Hollywood war movies they didn't get to have a character.
It got a bit boring towards the end and probably should have been cut down. 6/10