Why Oh Why can't Hollywood just make a good movie.

Rating: 7/10 (29 May 2005)

OK, this is my type of movie. So why did I despise the director for making it, how could he waste so much of a good thing, lack so much common sense, live in such degradation, and ruin such a plot?
So, I read other commentaries to see if I'm psycho. It seems I'm not alone, there are others, very bitter and disappointed.
I thought Law was supposed to be good, well he is, so why waste it?
Kidman begins to shine, you start to feel her character, and she is loosing that, I'm a cold bitch look, I could fall for her now, but wasted character.
Well Renée? We've got to love her for this part, she was having fun and so was I. She did well despite the likely best parts on the cutting room floor.
A supporting cast? Whow!, long list of wonderful character and characters that filled the basket even fuller, but the production scattered it all to the wind. No matter how well they did, it was an impossible task of bringing it all back together.
Where does this creative crew live? The dark side? With no personal fortitude, no faith? The whole world sh-ts on them? Life's not worth living? Then, what a cheep shot for and ending scene, there is no redemption in guilt. Do a good job in the first place. Something more than Ruby should have shined.
When having something good, it should have been building plot and character, but it quit cold, when it should quit and move on, it dragged on, then came back and threw in more. This movie started so many good ideas and characters it didn't use, and wasted so much on the irrelevant. There is enough real horror in war without creating your own useless paranoia.
Damn it was a good movie, why couldn't it have been a good movie.
Ratting is hard. Half gets a 10, half gets a 2, but I'll watch it again and save a copy.