All talk.. no substance

Rating: 3/10 (24 February 2006)

with a great looking cast (ben kingsley, bruce willis, lucy liu) i was expecting a lot from this film. unfortunately the movie tries far too hard, and winds up falling flat on its posterior
everything is hyper stylised, from the home furnishings and decors to the outfits and script
the movie is also badly let down by a static and wooden central performance (a young nicolas cage for example might have turned this into a great movie), and a very poor if non existent score
other performances are also weak... lucy liu for example is wet and girly. everything you don't want from a liu performance is here
to top it the director was clearly so happy with the films story telling ability that he feels the need to explain everything at the end of the movie, in the style of a scooby doo mystery
this film is exhausting, boring, predictable and very disappointing