Missed opportunity

Rating: 7/10 (9 October 2006)

This feels like a missed opportunity. I suspect that there was enough in the story and, quite possibly, enough material left in the edit suite, to make this a really top class film. Unfortunately, the director opted for a heavy handed message (hey kids  war's bad, OK?) and a basic chase movie with a few interesting ideas chucked in, instead of a lot of interesting ideas and thoughts with some chases and explosions thrown in.
Ultimately, it is actually a good film, which looks great and has well-judged performances, particularly from Clive Owen. I'd absolutely say it was worth watching. It is just disappointing that it could not exploit the full potential of the premise, so you tend to focus on what the movie doesn't do rather than what it does.