Beginning entirely annoying...

Rating: 6/10 (16 October 2005)

It wasn't a horrible movie, I felt it just couldn't find it's place, yet Nicolas Cage did fantastically (after getting over the whole , what the hell, he's playing a Romanian thing) But, I became thoroughly annoyed by it just form the opening credits. It wasn't(as some have said) that the graphics were bad, it was just not what you would expect from a film that has been labelled as 'indie'. It was what would be seen in a second rate action movie, it reminded me of something Vin Diesel was in, obviously a bad sign, or even worse a stupid little Michael Bay trick. It for me started the picture off horribly, and gave me the idea that I couldn't like the rest of the movie, yet the film itself wasn't strong enough to overcome these early downfalls.