Good yarn but not a very good film

Rating: 6/10 (28 April 2014)

I get nightmares where I think Morgan Freeman is narrating in my head and I can't turn him off. For me, his condescending delivery which peels back of the top layer of the man onion, defines this film, and so it starts to lose me a bit. This is a really good story but so much of the film is made up of episodes of over the top male bonding. I find it astonishing that it rates so highly to be honest. I also have a problem with the plethora of goofs. Why do the contents of an atmospheric sewerage line explode upon the breaking of its pipe with a brick? Like that would work anyway. And why place a boat that you want to paint paint right on the edge of the sea as the moment the tide comes in it will simply float away? And how did our protagonist get the poster stuck back once he went through his escape tunnel in the wall? There are so many stupid parts to it. I enjoyed it generally though, as I say its a good yarn - but the best film ever! Best film ever for males with IQs under 80 perhaps. I could believe that.