Too long by half

Rating: 4/10 (24 February 2005)

This is what happens when music video directors get their first feature: they don't know how to make decisions. There are four (4!) endings to this movie. We kept getting up, ready to leave, but no, here comes another ending from the Hollywood cabinet of stock endings.
Scenes drag on with nothing going on -- probably because a band was supposed to be playing to fill the silence -- every conflict has the suspense sucked out of it before the crescendo.
Some SFX were great, however, and some performances were not as overwrought as Rachel Weisz's or as empty as Keanu's. I'm sure Shia LeBeouf thought his role was going to have more meat when he signed on.
Download, cut out an hour of useless dreck, and you'd have yourself a great movie.