Get Over The Story And Enjoy the Special Effects & Action

Rating: Null/10 (13 June 2000)

I can't really see why people are complaining. This is an action movie and of course its going to have unrealistic stunts that nevertheless fascinate.
People who expected this film to be inline with the old series have seriously not learnt their lesson from the first one.
As for the obvious storyline what else can you expect from an action film. The good guy always wins in these sought of films. No one for a moment can say that they didn't think Bruce Willis would not succeed in all three Die Hards or that Mel Gibson & Danny Glover were not going to survive for a moment in the Lethal Weapon movies. If you want the bad guy to win go and read 'The Chocolate War'.
Also can't help but think that the fact that most of the movie is obviously set in Sydney Australia does not go well with N.American viewers. The producers of the Matrix were probably more prudent in this respect by not making it obvious that all of the city scenes in that film were shot in Sydney.
The shootout in the Company Lab was impressive even if it looked a little like the matrix and the bad guys were bad shooters. What the heck, the the Vietnamese in the second Rambo film weren't much better either yet it made for enjoyable viewing.