Entertaining enough thriller, but treats common-sense with reckless disregard.

Rating: 7/10 (11 September 2003)

A group of criminals are brought in for questioning about a crime, but from the manner in which they are thrown together it is clear - even to the criminals themselves - that something is a-foot.
A classic example of how different the world of film is to the world of literature. If this was a book the publisher would ask "how drunk were you when you wrote this?" Thankfully film has music, acting (the best thing here) and special effects to distract the viewer. And this film does a fair-to-middling job.
Here we have a film that doesn't so much contain holes, but is more one giant hole. However in this big hole we have various smaller holes! At an early stage one of the characters smells-a-rat, but carries on regardless! Excuse me, but if you want to present someone as a "master criminal" this hardly helps your case!
Credit other reviewers for going through the nonsense and holes on a blow-by-blow basis (although technically a spoiler); but achieving what is intended here, through the method employed, is as silly as anything I have seen in a serious film.
Even if you think this film is great - and plenty do - you have to agree that it somewhat lacks real-world credibility. It may have a twist ending, but when you have confused the living daylights out of any sensible and logical person (and yes I do know flashbacks are not always the truth!) then a song and dance finale wouldn't have made any less sense.