Trite

Rating: 2/10 (23 May 2001)

Luckily I didn't go into this with expectations too high. I know what to expect from Michael Bay, and I certainly got what I expected. This 3 hour and ten minute debacle had a hackneyed script, overwhelming score, cheesy camera tricks, and high school play level acting. The dialogue sounds as though the writer sat at a desk with a pile of scripts of war films and cut and pasted virtually this entire film. Every line out of these poor actors mouths were cliches and not even good cliches. Most of the acting talent was wasted and nowhere was that more evident than poor Cuba Gooding Jr. Never have I seen an Oscar winning actor in a more thankless and useless part that any one of a dozen no name actors would have killed for. On the whole, this looks like a tremendous waste of 200 million dollars and 3 hours and ten minutes of the audiences lives.