simply boring

Rating: 5/10 (12 September 2006)

I admit - I rented this because I like Jodie Foster and most of her movies have strong and interesting characters. Alas her part is not very exciting - it is superficial, barely sketched character with no depth, personality or history. Denzel Washington has much bigger role but seems miscasted - his part has zero opportunities to demonstrate his athleticism and attempts to give him some personal history are very amateurish. Overall impression - muddy writing - chopping story into small flashbacks and potential future results is gimmicky and does not contribute much to suspense, average acting (even given the mediocre parts), completely improbable ending (first thing cops would do is to bring bomb sniffing dogs that would easily detect hiding person) and weird and forced storytelling. You will watch it and you end up feeling like you truly wasted two hours - and you might as well have rented "Jesus Christ - The Vampire Killer".