Poor Script, Confusing Directing and Gratuitous Violence

Rating: 2/10 (20 October 2006)

This movie suffers from the unfortunate Tarantino Syndrome that we have to live with among Hollywood movies nowadays. If you like to see brains blown out, this is your movie. You will probably forget that the plot makes no sense and that the directing does nothing but make it confusing. Yeah, of course you get to see many famous actors in one movie. I guess that's the only positive I can say about the film. Maybe it's not a positive thing considering the mess.
After seeing the movie I thought maybe the movie was suffering from difficulties of being based on a book, but now I have read that it is really based on another movie. Hong Kong movie? Makes me curious if it could have been as bad as this. I won't take the risk though.