Great concept, but must we be dragged thru the mud?

Rating: 2/10 (5 November 2002)

I really, really wanted to like this film, as its premise is great and the storyline intriguing. But the film includes every last drop of human depravity and evil as its backdrop, and the plot lumbers thru all this dreck while trying to get the story out. I know this world isn't perfect, and I don't expect films to depict it as perfect. But this time Spielburg went overboard, overwhelming the story w/his 'grittyiness' and giving us a mudbath instead of a thoughtful and entertaining examination of 'justice' in the future. Don't waste your time or money.