On target

Rating: 7/10 (11 August 2008)

This is a pretty well told story and since it disses the current buffoons running the govt., it got my approval. The storyline made sense most of the time even if I always find tedious these movies in which a mere human seems to be a superman... bullets fly all around Wahlberg but never hit him, except for the dufus cop at the first of the movie... and of course he actually missed because he was supposed to kill him. But, if you can forget all that and treat him like a Jason Bourne, the movie works and Wahlberg is almost as talented as Damon in the "faster than a speeding bullet" arena. Just the right amount of evil coming from the FBI and the crooked Senator... not so much as to make them laughable and enough to make them a serious threat. If the movie has a fault it is that once again we see the system failing. We know who the crooks are, since we movie goers are omniscient, but no one is in real life... so the blow out at the Bozeman ranch (Bozeman never looked so good!) is excessive... but we accept it because we KNOW he's killing evil doers. Unfortunately, life is far more complex.