Moralistic and completely boring

Rating: 3/10 (17 September 2005)

This movie STINKS with moralism and Hollywood attempt at "goodism" compounded by typical American sentimentality. BORING! The story is not interestingly Topsy-turvy and it doesn't REALLY arc well...it tries several times but it just never gets there. The camera work is horrible...the hand-held business is pretentious and takes away from the storyline. All in all, though I've always enjoyed Michael Mann's films, I have to say that this was terrible. Too bad so many good actors, excluding Tom Cruise of course were wasted on this film. It's become obvious that the producers in Hollywood are positively clueless as to WHAT moves audiences in this day and age. It's too bad, considering so many great films came out of other periods in history when the world was in a precarious state of flux.