Middling melodramatic

Rating: 3/10 (7 April 2006)

First off, they killed the one person who wasn't a killer, using him for the Kansas City Shuffle, so good-guy/bad-guy is out the window and the film sucks. Any film that does that sucks. They didn't have to. It wasn't necessary. With all the inventivness this film had, all the dei ex machina, all the do-what-you-want-and-nobody-will-notice, they didn't have to kill that guy so gratuitously. Well, you say, Bruce Willis was that kind of guy. So, okay, this film glorifies murder, then. Just shock, that's all that this film was about. The two guys living opposite each other in penthouses? That's supposed to make the film believable? It's like the noise filmmakers use now to substitute for ideas.