Saved by the ending

Rating: 7/10 (15 November 2006)

At first I found this film hard going and I was even getting a little bored with it.I thought that it was trying too hard to be clever and it seemed to be going nowhere.I have to say though that the last 30 minutes or so of the film saved it from a lower mark out of 10.
I won't give anything away about the plot,but it is all explained very nicely at the end and in a clever way that makes sense of all that went before.Josh Hartnett is fine in the lead role and Morgan Freeman is his usual reliable self,though I have seen him better.Ben Kingsley(I'm sorry,SIR Ben Kingsley...give me a break!!)is hit and miss as a Jewish gangster and Lucy Liu talks so fast at first the I couldn't tell what she was harping on about half the time.She does get better though.Bruce Willis does a solid job in a role that doesn't really push him.
If you decide to watch this movie and are struggling a bit to care about any of the characters,stick with it.It is just about worth it.