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Rating: 5/10 (31 January 2006)

I would like to start this comment with some praise of some of Mr. Spielberg's work. The Terminal was phenomenal, Catch Me If You Can was breath-taking, Schindler's List was heartbreaking...
But Steven has taken it too far. For the first time, he has openly used the tactics of shock value using unnecessary nudity, gore, and a mixture of both in the scene where the assassins kill the woman in the boat. If Mr. Spielberg did not have his name in the credits, I would never have guessed he was even involved in this film.
However, it was well edited, well scripted, well directed. The suspense is fit for a Spielberg film, but the ending was complete trash. The last 15 minutes of the film, the audience is at the backs of their seats looking at their watches thinking "C'mon, Steve...end it already..." The plot was terrible enough to bring my 10/10 for everything else, down to a 5/10. Worthy to see if you're studying film, but it was not entertaining in my opinion.