Amazing first half, boring second

Rating: 5/10 (4 May 2002)

The first half of the movie is truly amazing. Lots of great ideas, the original story is very well adapted.
But half way through it, the story gets so dumb you want to find who ever wrote the script and web him to silent forever.
Too much blah blah in the second half, and besides Willem Dafoe, none of the actors really give a good performance.
In this second half, there is too much disparity between the family scenes and the action scenes. And even the action scenes, besides perhaps the last one, are just plain dumb and stupid.
I could not wait for this to be over.