Laughable, straightly stupid action flic

Rating: 4/10 (18 December 1999)

Sometimes a bunch of good actors join up and throw their pickyness of roles just to make a straight, no-questions-asked, action movie. In this case, actors like the Oscar-Winner Nicolas Cage, the three-times-Golden-Globe and two-times-oscar-nominated John Malkovich, the golden-globe-winner Ving Rhames, and the already charismatic John Cusack and Steve Buscemi. But this film, despite its actors, is actually an encore of the standard Jerry Bruckheimer action escapism, or in other words, just-action-no-real-brains. Despite all these, the film still delivers some good one-liners, specially from David Chapelle, who resembles the likes of Chris Rock and Chris Tucker. Real stupid action yarn, but that's what it wants to be. A definite 4.