almost darn okay

Rating: 6/10 (28 May 2007)

the revenge thing is nice here, the stirrings of parental love, Denzel is just fine, the setting is interesting, but the story is simply cracked, the problem is that too much is going on in a small space, its overdetermined, but the main problem is that even though the money handover was botched, and we assume the child was killed, why didn't they try to confirm this?????? And why was the child kept alive, the "voice" said its business, but what business, he clearly hadn't tried to renegotiate, until it was thrown in at the end, like everything else, way bummer, but the good news is that Denzel dies, given what a slaughter machine he was, this is only responsible artistically, unlike the recently released movie Shooter, where Wahlberg lives, even though he's killed about 65 million people. Anyways, I really wanted to like this movie much better than I actually did. It was fun to see Denzel playing a conflicted, but deadly person, like Training day, which was a lot of fun.