Are you all nuts?

Rating: 2/10 (9 May 2009)

I really wanted to like this film, but in one simple way it let me down badly - in short, it makes no sense whatsoever.
Great production values; great cast; basically a good story, but what on earth happened to the script? There are enormous plot holes everywhere and even what isn't peppered with discontinuity is essentially a load of old cobblers, as we like to say here.
This movie has been murdered in the editing suite - by whom, who knows? It all reminds me of the disaster that was The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, although I expect no-one punched the director this time. At least Clive Owen managed to actually do some acting for a change. He's come on a lot since starring in Sin City. Denzel Washington, meanwhile, spends the entire movie looking like he knows it's all gone down the well - there's definitely a hysterical edge to his performance. Isn't Mr Plummer looking good?