A plot that would choke a goat.

Rating: 4/10 (19 December 2007)

The script was terrible.
To enumerate everything that was illogical about this movie would take all day.
The plot was just ridiculous and every scenario presented seemed unbelievable.
My least favorite thing about the movie. The protagonists just seemed lucky. They didn't seem as though they were surviving these situations on account of any ingenuity on their part, but rather they just get lucky time and time again.
Sure the kid from the IMAC commercial can "hack" but they frequently find themselves in situations where they're being shot at in the most precarious situations and they simply survive.
Did they fashion bullet proof vests to put under their shirts...? No the bullets just missed.
Did they lock themselves in an armored car to survive the explosion? No, it just didn't kill them enough.
Did they get the control room to CALL OFF THE FIGHTER JET! No, IT JUST MISSED.
It's not that I wouldn't accept the hero surviving tough situations but you've got give me at least some sort of ingenuity on the part of the protagonist.
For instance: In Die Hard 1, as the bomb on the roof was about to explode, McClain jumped off the roof with a fire hose to escape.
The explosion did not simply "miss".
In this movie everything seems to just "miss" in absence of any sort of ingenuity on the part of the protagonists.
This lowers it to the level of the film to that of mid 80s action fluff ie. Segall and Van Damme. I however would be more forgiving of such movies for not wasting my time.
I'm not saying that movies need to be realistic, but you've got to make me believe. This movie failed to make me believe anything that was going on was remotely possible or likely, but also that the characters involved were in any sort of danger.
I just didn't buy it.... at all.... and it became laughable to that extent.