Mildly diverting trash

Rating: 5/10 (21 July 2000)

This movie might be utterly predictable, cliched with, one suspects, unintentionally funny dialogue, but as a moving comic book it is a passable way of spending a couple of hours when you really don't have anything else to do. Hey,what do you expect - Pinter? The hokey plot borrows from any Bond movie - pick one at random - and this spy-turned-traitor business is getting real tired. However, some of the action sequences are eyecatchingly staged even when the fight scenes drag on ad nauseam, and if John Woo's trademark balletic slo-mo shoot-outs are getting a little tiresome, well there's always Limp Bizkit on the soundtrack.