Half a good crime caper half a big disappointment

Rating: 5/10 (25 April 2007)

The film starts well but all too soon starts to show flash forwards which tell you that no one is going to get hurt, the villain will get away with the bank robbery.
The film has not quite enough momentum to carry the viewer through to the end without beginning to question the implausibility of the plot. So though at first it it is good to watch, one eventually longs for it to cut to the end. Best seen it on TV so that one can fast forward through the repetitious sequences.
At the end it is never clear why Jodie Foster character was in the film ( except to give her a salary) or how Chris Plummer could have been a general during World War 2 and then still be running a bank in the year 2000.
There are too many lose ends so that after the end the viewers ask themselves how it was supposed to end. A good film for boy scouts.
Worth watching once if there is nothing better to see but will not bear viewing twice