Excellent modern-day sequel to Arthur Miller

Rating: 9/10 (24 July 2006)

Even with a few plot holes, such as the fact that blowing up credit card company buildings will not kill data records since they all have separate and well-protected backup systems, this is an excellent comment on the modern human condition.
Watching it for the second time I saw it as a worthy sequel in spirit, theme and sub-themes, to Arthur Miller's landmark "Death of a Salesman." Call it a 21st-century update. All of the same topics are revisited - consumerism, materialism, job-derived self-identity, the cheapening of humanity, emotional and social impotence, the blurring and blending of reality and imagination.
The fight scenes seemed somewhat improbable, but if one views them as figurative rather than literal, the improbability becomes immaterial.
A thinking man's film, up there with the best.