great premise but a little to drawn out and too much cutting

Rating: Null/10 (28 December 2003)

This movie was very good for about the first hour and a half, crowe plays a great science nerd and pachino is solid. The wife of russel crowes character and the bald person in the misisippi portion of the movie (much better than his weak work in Paycheck) also had strong performances. It seems as though after the dramatic non-happening in the first part of the movie it just seems to drag on, like producer and directors were saying to themselves "we need more al pachino" and some of the stuff the movie modified at the end seemed like total baloney to say the least, it seemed like the movie lacked a legal consultant... great middle and begining but the ending is too drawn out in my opinion. I would give more detail but I would spoil the plot for those who haven't seen the movie yet.