Doesn't cut it

Rating: 3/10 (29 December 2006)

After reading endless amounts of praising reviews I thought I was walking into the theater to see Shakespeare. Instead, I received a lot of special effects (poorly placed in some cases) and a story left open-ended. It's as if this movie and story was built around the three main action scenes and the storyline was just given a good once over.
It's quite strange that many professional critics found this movie to be worthy, at all. Some of the effects were really nice in this movie. The birth giving scene was done really well and I was impressed in how much effort they put into it. The shootout scenes were somewhat realistic in my opinion. But unfortunately, that doesn't make a movie for me. The story itself is the most important.
Clive Owen is one of my favorite British actors. He really didn't do too bad in this movie. But what was the deal with the middle aged white lady with dreadlocks? Was that really needed? I guess it was an attempt to look more futuristic but really, come on. I kept picturing the Queen of England with dreadlocks and wearing a wrinkled t-shirt.
I'd recommend checking it out when it comes to DVD simply for the action scenes and special effects but I'm still kicking myself and feel hoodwinked by the good reviews. This movie is a pork chop labeled as a steak.
Voted 3 for the 3 good action scenes.