Easily, one of the worst movies of the year

Rating: 3/10 (12 March 2001)

Tom Cruise, back at his worst acting standards. I admit he is not one of my favorite actors, and despite the huge efforts that Hollywood made to include him in the big league I still have not seen him delivering a great performance. Certainly his performance in this movie is light-years from being noteworthy. With the help of a tiresome script, he desperately tries to be the "anti-Bond" cool cat, and the results are pathetic. But he is not even the worst thing in the movie. The storyline is... well, I would say "predictable" but that is an euphemism. All we get in this movie was seen before in other movies (mostly in average and bad movies, anyway). It is like a collection of the tiresome Hollywood standards for action movies. A futile love story, the usual bad guy that wants to do one of the standard bad things (I won't spoil it... just think of three things the standard bad guy from mediocre action movies would do, and you probably got at least two right). And the final fight... oh dear.
Although I've seen much worst stuff around through the years, it's still really depressing to see big budget movies delivering this kind of standard, predictable, futile junk.
3/10