Overrated, predictable, with lots of bad acting by Brad Pitt

Rating: 4/10 (24 February 2004)

This is a top 250 movie?!? Brad Pitt's acting is shallow, stereotypical, and not nuanced. He does the California surfer-dude routine throughout the entire movie as though some uneducated simpleton dolt could wind up with his job...sorry, but I don't think so. The plot line relies on a connect...the...dots methodology -- contrived, and largely predictable with action interspersed with banal social dialogue. I gave this 4/10 mostly for the fine acting of Kevin Spacey and Morgan Freeman. Very silly -- Brad Pitt's acting had me laughing...and not in a good way. In defense of Mr. Pitt, I think he was badly miscast since I've seen other movies in which he does at least a respectable job.