Disappointing and Detached

Rating: 4/10 (30 June 2002)

Here is a film that never draws the audience in. It stays detached from the outset. You never lose sight of the fact that you're watching a movie. I was not drawn into the film at all. The answers to plot points about Tom Cruise's son and who is trying to set him up were obvious to me very early on and left little to do but see how much annoying CGI they could cram into to the movie. One of the few bright spots for me personally was seeing Jessica Harper used effectively in a movie, something which hasn't happened in a long while. There were some inventive aspects to this movie, but they weren't anything that hasn't been seen in futuristic movies before and they seemed to detract from the audiences ability to achieve a suspension of disbelief. Overall, I was disappointed and ready for this movie to finally end.