Awful

Rating: 1/10 (25 April 2004)

I thought this movie was simply dreadful. The direction was, at it's best, distracting. I thought the only redeeming quality of the entire film was Christopher Walken, who I will love in just about any role (yes, that includes his role in Joe Dirt). I would love to tell everyone the ending, so nobody else would waste their money to watch this movie, but I walked out with about 20 minutes to go because I became so frustrated with it. It was the single most boring "action" movie I've ever seen. It may have been 2 and a half hours, but the 2 hours I spent watching it felt like about 4 or 5. It was incredibly slow-moving and, as I've previously mentioned, the directing of this movie was awful, and that's putting it politely. If it wasn't for the name "Denzel Washington", no one would have even given this movie a chance. The director tries too hard to make this picture "artsy" and he fails... miserably. Grade: D (and I'm being generous, I reserve the "F" for movies like "Gigli" and "Shark Attack")