Very good but wears out it's welcome a couple hours in....

Rating: 7/10 (21 January 2006)

I really liked this one for the first couple of hours. The cast, the set up, the acting, the formulae--all really well done, well handled, believable. I have zero problem with it for the most part.
Where it started to grate was about when they wound up in England, you have them going thru the assassination routine for the 5th time, and by then we've seen it all--the bombs, the set up, the trip, the contacts with our mysterious frenchies, etc.--and you want to see it drawn to a conclusion somwheres.
You don't get that. You don't have the usual finale/shootout at the head baddie's HQ, though they do raid it--you have a strange drawn out last 40 minutes where this thing looked like it was going to end 3-4 times.
Okay he's back with the wife...Now it will end...
Okay he's lost another cohort...now it will end...
Okay he's back in Israel...this it? Nope....
There is only one really Stupid scene-he's doing his wife, and he keeps on flashing back (for the 8th time now...) to the Munich Massacre. Okay we got it, Steven--do we need to see these guys gunned down again? And who thinks of things like that while in the act w/ the Missus? Be like thinking, mid-stroke-'Wow Sanford and Son wasn't that good today'...something just didn't seem right there, ya know? I liked it besides this. Oh the final shot of the Twin towers was meant to let us know that the eternal cycle of Palestinian violence has direct conseuqences even 'til today. That's all well good and fine, but I'm not so sure we need to be told that, ya know? We know it already.
Bana and Craig are great.
*** outta ****. Steven edit thyself.