Come home Brian DePalma, all is forgiven!

Rating: 1/10 (9 June 2000)

Why is everyone afraid to tell the truth about this film? It sucks! Even the action sequences are pedestrian and silly. This may be a bigger embarrassment to Australia than the republic referendum. Why did John Polson feel he had to put on an Australian accent - doesn't he already have one? Richard Roxburgh was almost as bad (South African or New Zealander? - never could quite work out what that accent was meant to be.) Tom Cruise has been delivering the goods for a few years now - but this was not the same character as the first film. I had flashbacks to Cocktail watching this poor excuse for a performance. And what was Anthony Hopkins doing? Did Henry Czerny read the script and decide he didn't want to play Kitridge in this pile of rubbish? Good idea if so. John Woo has not made a good film since he left Hong Kong - Remember the good old days of The Killer and Hard Boiled? At long last, Robert Towne is being exposed as the most over-rated writer in cinema history. Chinatown was great, but there's been a lot of Days Of Thunder under the bridge since then.
My favorite moment was when Ving Rhames stepped out of the helicopter and into the script.
Where's Brian DePalma when you need him?