Mindbogglingly stupid

Rating: 3/10 (6 July 2000)

You'd guess a movie with a $125M price tag would have deserved someone who'd proofread the script for obvious nonsense...

(WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD)
Of course, things that happen in an action movie don't always refer to reality, but there's a certain point where it just becomes ridiculous. Take for example the _three_ times when a character is not the person he seems to be, but (gasp!) someone else wearing a face mask (two of these are applied within seconds by Cruise's character, who seems to have an instant face mask generator in his pocket). Or consider the motorbike chase: things like these _don't happen_. When Roger Ebert reviewed some action movie the other day, he observed that the action scenes could as well be performed by Bugs Bunny, because you're always aware that no human being will ever perform these moves without massive support from the vfx department. That's what I thought here, too.
Apart from that, you'll find about every movie cliche you can think of... (I'm still waiting for a movie where the good guy kills the bad guy and _makes sure_ he's dead. These secret service guys can disarm a nuclear weapon with a paper clip and some gaffa tape, but they can't kill someone for good - hmm, they can kill dozens of nameless thugs with single kicks, but not _the bad guy_.)
About the only strong point I found was that the movie looks great (i.e., it looks _expensive_). - Save your money and go rent some of those Bruckheimer flicks (The Rock, Con Air). At least, those aren"t _that_ dumb.