Good start, really dumb ending, gread kid!!!

Rating: 5/10 (27 April 2004)

Ok I gotta say this, working with the right kid is priceless and in this case, little Ms Fanning is amazing !!! Mr. Washington is his always great in the part and does his best with a poorly worked ending. You can tell he and Ms Fanning had a real on screen bond and that makes for the best parts of the film.
(Warning; Spoilers Below)
Summery; DW looses believability and painfully obvious, post "test audience" added final scene makes ending look dumber
Sadly, the film fails in the action and the decisions the DW's character makes. After claiming to be ruthless in his pursuit of the kidnapper/murderers he is surprisingly lenient on the women he meets. They are just as guilty as the men but his torture and killing is limited to only the men and the women get off with little more than a big cussing.

In the end, his final act is also pitiful in regards to the action of the start. It almost seemed to me the writers gave up on the story as DW's character just lets him self be captured with no struggle whatsoever.
And just before the credits role, there is a scene out of nowhere that just has to be an add on after the original ending tested very poorly. In short, after DW dies riding in the back of a car, there is a BW fade of the big bad guy being shot in the head by a cop. Absolutely out of nowhere and looks to be an addition to give the file the little bit of closure it did not even have before.