Good from far but far from good. Better than your regular policeman vs bad guy movie, but...

Rating: 5/10 (11 September 2004)

Good from far but far from good. Better than your regular policeman vs bad guy movie, but this movie falls short of being good because of two aspects: 1. Although it is a long movie, it does not allocate enough time to develop the "sensitive" side of the story, although it keeps us up-to-date with what's happening outside the main storyline and tries to involve us. 2. The "action" parts of the movie, such as fights, shootings and so on are filmed OK but are completely unrealistic and I couldn't stop noticing that. *** SPOILER FOLLOWS DOWN***
This culminates with the extremely annoying ending, where the supposedly smart and smooth and experienced criminal childishly exposes himself through his all too obvious shadow and gets killed. Except for some annoying parts, though, the movie is OK. If you're into the classic happy Hollywood ending then you'll get over it in a minute. Me, I didn't.