Tedious and Uninspiring

Rating: 5/10 (23 December 2006)

I rated this movie a 4 out of 10. Had the cast been different (and not nearly as talented), this could have easily been a 2 or a 3 as a "Movie of the Week" on TV. Someone decided to put together an all-star cast of actors but forgot to hire a script writer. The dialogue was horrible, and in a few places so clichéd that it made me wince. I love Robert Deniro and think that Matt Damon is generally very good. Having said that, I thought Matt Damon could have definitely given a bit more range even though his character was supposed to be unemotional. DeNiro's cameo was pretty lame, but I thought that Angelina and John Turturro were fine in their roles. BTW, couldn't they have at least made Matt Damon look a LITTLE bit older? I couldn't tell the difference between when he was in college and when he'd been in the CIA for about 20 years. Matt's son was just poor and very miscast. You would think that the creation of the CIA would be riveting, but I felt at times that I could have been watching the rise and fall of a paper products business and had more emotion. Wait for video; see something else!