good, but not worth the oscars

Rating: 6/10 (31 July 2002)

So on what planet does an action movie deserve two oscar nominations? I guess the planet where many of the crap movies that have won in the past [read: Shakespeare in Love] were able to win. This movie was pretty good, a standard action flick with a few twists and turns, but nothing I haven't seen before. If the academy felt that Denzel Washington deserved an oscar, couldn't they have picked a better vehicle? I'm sure he's done better. Or perhaps a better actor for the oscar entirely -- what about Morgan Freeman, Samuel L. Jackson, or even Will Smith?
This movie is definitely worth seeing, it has many interesting plot twists and is entertaining, but not better than the thousands of other [action] movies that were out last year.