Everything Go Boom!

Rating: 4/10 (20 January 2004)

This is a basically bad movie unless you just want to sit back and enjoy off the hook performances from Nick Cage and John Travolta. Both stars were great, playing both parts. The plot, simple-minded and unbelievable, tries hard to screw up their fun.
Apparently, the two main characters are indestructible; no matter what is done to them they survive in fighting trim. Everyone else, well they are just a bunch of goonoid targets.
Spoiler Alert
The movie begins with the murder of a child (a time honored movie no-no). We are shown major surgeries with no scars, no healing time or after effects. We are asked to accept that Nick and John have similar head types, body styles, shoe sizes, etc. We are treated to gun battles galore in which elite cops and FBI couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with multiple clips in their Uzis. And wasn't that boat chase right out of James Bond?
Despite all this, I enjoyed the picture because the two stars were great, having lots of fun with it, and were both on the screen almost all the time.