Dakota Fanning is brilliant!

Rating: 4/10 (14 January 2007)

A little bit to much of all that music-clip style camera and editing fancies, but thanks to the great work of the cast and especially the stunning performance of Dakota Fanning and Denzyl Washington, this movie is getting quite emotional, touching and keeps you watching it to the end although the director seems to have the cerebral matureness of a retarded 14 year old Bonaza-fan. (But come on what did i expect?!?! ... it's a Tony Scott movie.) It's incredible how religiously fundamental narrow-minded and unreflected this whole revenge drama gets. There is so much time wasted with flat stereotypic dialogs, where you almost know exactly what the next sentence will be, before they say them. The only thing that constantly keeps the flow is, as mentioned before, the brilliant work of most of the cast, which keeps a connection to the viewer through all this tons of fancy Hollywood magic that you can buy with big budgets.