A wasted opportunity!

Rating: 3/10 (19 August 2006)

The story had potential and given the cast this could have been a fantastic film. Sadly the result is nothing short of dull. It's almost as if the director was marking time waiting for the credits to roll around. What this film is completely lacking is any kind of drama, tension or emotion and that makes for poor cinema. We are never really engaged beyond waiting for things to get interesting, which sadly, never happens. What this film does have is some good ideas and plot devices but the director (and lets be under no illusions here - in the case of this film the fault lies purely with Spike Lee) wastes them with leisurely, lacklustre plot development and timing. In the hands of a Michael Mann or a David Mamet this would probably have been a superb film.