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Rating: Null/10 (23 June 1999)

Okay, see, this movie, it's got Keanu Reeves playing a highly successful, very smart attorney working for some kind of firm. If you can get past that (which is no easy task, as Keanu isn't the ::: cough ::: greatest actor), you'll realize it tries to play off as an intelligent thriller. Make no mistake, it's not. I wasn't exactly paying attention at the beginning, so there's a miniscule chance I missed something, but I doubt it, as there's really nothing to this movie. Okay, yeah, you've got Keanu playing nancy-boy, and he does some work, goes a little south on his morale, and realizes his boss is Satan. How many times have I had this realization? Yeah. Pretty intriguing, no? Perhaps if this had been better written, the sets had been a little better, not so overwhelming, maybe this would have worked. Al Pacino played every character he's played since Michael Corleone, oftentimes yelling at spontaneous moments, and not always making sense. Okay, yeah. The fatal flaw in this film is that the quality of it seesaws on the ending. For maybe a minute (and all of you know what a long minute it was, as it stretched on and on in a senseless slow motion portion) this movie was one of the coolest I've ever seen. But then, the laziness of the writers broke through, and you're disappointed. All the same, I'll say that if you turn it off at that moment, folks, you're looking at a grand film. Time it right, and you've got a great movie. You'll know when.