good movie but what's with the stereotypes

Rating: Null/10 (3 November 1999)

Well paced, and entertaining movie - so why does it pander to the lowest common denominator audience ?
For example, in the initial hostage taking scene, the black female hostage, angry and feisty, hollers that she should have brought her own gun. Further on, we have a gay hairstylist who swoons over Connery's character, and describes himself as an "artiste".
It's almost has if the movie is trying to squeeze out reactions from a the knuckle-headed audience it predicts will flock to it. Be assured, the reactions in tries to evoke are both base banal.
A condescending chuckle here -- yep those haristylists sure are gay! A knowing smile there -- those fiesty angry black women, you can't beat 'em!
The movie would have been better off without this.