Overblown shoot-em-up

Rating: 4/10 (18 July 2010)

Once again Hollywood grinds out another shoot-em-up, this time in the guise of a mind-exploration film. Come on: who's fooling whom? the film is directed at an audience whose attention span has been honed on video games: they can't go on unless he/she sees a dead body or car crash every second.
As for the story, why not have all parties sit down and chill out on good weed or opium? Much cheaper than getting all those guns and first-class plane tickets. Some roles are dreadfully miscast. Watanabe's English is just not up to snuff and Ellen Young looks totally inappropriate.
And that ending! "Citizen Kane" accomplished the same thing with a lot less bloodshed and just one memorable word, "Rosebud".