Great Style, Zero Substance!

Rating: 4/10 (7 January 2007)

If not for Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, Spike Lee and the soundtrack, this one would have gotten a much lower rating from me.
No need to worry about spoilers. In order to put in a spoiler, you have to know the "surprise ending" of the movie. This one had a surprise ending, I ... think ... but you can turn me upside down and shake me and still get no intelligent guess as to what it was.
The feeling of having wasted two good hours that could have been better utilized rearranging my sock drawer overpowers the experience of enjoying the great looks and acting of Clive Owen and trying to follow the little plot twists in the hope of getting a decent payoff at the end.
It's watchable, heck yes, but if there's anyone out there who comes out of this thinking "Eureka," I'd love to hear what it was you found. There are little bits of cleverness scattered here and there, but if they were birdseed and I were a pigeon, I'd be one skinny bird.
I'm just grateful it was a Netflix rental and not an evening of overpriced tickets and popcorn.