Sit back and enjoy the ride

Rating: 7/10 (23 August 1999)

Entertaining vehicle for Micheal Douglas (who appears in virtually every shot - but doesn't get to bed the leading lady this time). Sean Penn appears for about 5 minutes in all - which is just as well really since he has no charisma - why is he famous?
The plot had an opportunity right up to the last few minutes to round itself off to an excellent black comedy - film noir type conclusion, but the seemingly inevitable hollywood-style feel good ending had to be tacked on, which relegates the film to trivial entertainment - bad move Mr Producer.
However, watch it - and don't think about it too deeply.