One of the worst films ever made

Rating: 1/10 (16 October 2010)

I heartily agree with most of those who were scathing about this film. Although I don't like too many action/adventure films released over the last decade, those with a sense of realism, well directed and acted can be very good. The Bourne Identity is a case in point, but not so much the sequels.
This car-crash of a movie however is in my top ten worst films of all time. It isn't just the absurd plot which defies the slightest scrap of credibility. The movie exhibits everything that is wrong with many Hollywood films today, typically relying heavily on explosions, gunfire, wooden characters and abysmal dialogue, which is supposed to be funny, but just isn't amusing in the slightest. Why do so many film producers these days have to treat the public like dorks?
Age also comes into it. Immature teenagers might enjoy this trash, but anyone who looks for any intelligent side to a film is going to be very pushed to find anything entertaining or remotely gripping about it. It just adds up to a violent, borefest where the mind soon becomes desensitized to it all..
And the inclusion of Brad Pitt and his wife as the co-stars is there as a gimmick purely to bolster any interest, initially, but ultimately the film still fails to deliver on all fronts in spite of them. Neither of them needed to get involved with this so why did they? They were hardly short of a few bob. If they hadn't bothered in all likelihood this film would have sunk without trace from the moment of its release, and no one would have known or cared.
Sad, awful film