Not as good as I expected

Rating: 6/10 (5 July 2002)

Perhaps it's because I'm a Philip K. Dick fan and therefore somehow expected more, but I was disappointed by this film in a way that I wasn't disappointed in say, Total Recall. The plot seemed too straight-forward, with few surprises. It was well made, and not as darkly boring as most Spielberg films, and it was nice seeing Colin Ferrell and Samantha Morton doing well in a Hollywood vehicle--oh, and the weapons were cool--and the escape where Tom Cruise jumped from vehicle to vehicle as they raced down the side of a building was no more improbable than the helicopter stunt in Mission Impossible. But somehow it had no heart.