Muddled, silly, cliched and ridiculous.

Rating: 1/10 (4 February 2004)

I really wanted to like this movie, but i'm sorry to say it sucks. The plot is utter nonsense, with the obligatory subplots about The Men in Power (in this case it's Colm Meaney) trying to blow up The Bad Guys along with Our Main Hero and somebody tries to stop them. Doesn't this happen in every Bruckheimer movie? It's so cliched as to invoke nausea. Nic Cage's character is overstated as usual. First-time director Simon West is out of his element and would be better off doing comedies. The ending is exciting, but the villains final moments are so confusing and slapped-together that I didn't even know what happened to most of them. In a movie like this, the ending is important because there are so many villains to kill off. Very poorly done!