Pastiches, clichés and mirrors

Rating: 2/10 (1 July 2007)

If you happen to have watched more than two or three action movies before, you will most likely see some of the plot devices and story lines recycled for this one.
Except from some outlandish action, and the hope of hearing a tired old action hero deliver his famous one-liner once again, your hopes for a good movie are better placed elsewhere.
Add some seriously wooden acting, downright boring predictability and and a bevy of pre-made quotes that sometimes seem to have been made in total isolation, and you have, well; a nice set set of cardboard posters set in sequence.
That said; blowing things up is always fun!
Willis' hardened seen-it-all cop character has evolved much better through movies like Hostage (2005/I), and this one seems more like a huge step back in just about every other metric than in the department for blowing up the most expensive things possible.
And, yes; this writeup is probably colored by having too high hopes when watching the movie...