Decent..sort of

Rating: Null/10 (11 July 2003)

This movie was entertaining for the most part. My overall reaction was "Cool. Good movie. Let's never think about
it again." Because this is the sort of movie that gets worse if you think about
it too much. It started to slowly get worse towards the end of the
movie when I couldn't really help but think about the specifics of
what was going on. Denzel, yeah he acted well. He was believable. Hawk? He did a fine job, just barely good enough to cover up the
fact that he was (let's face it) miscast. (And that is a complement to
him, I know I couldn't be miscast into this part and stil pull it off) But anyway, I get turned off by action flicks that try to be more than
action flicks, and this movie kind of did that. Washington did NOT deserve an award for this. His character was
scripted in such a typical way that all he had to do was put on a
convincing face, hold his gun right and say his lines. Hawk had a MUCH more difficult character to play. There was
confusion in him, weakness, guilt, value struggle...all that good
stuff. In short, this movie was good in some ways, not good in others. I don't regret having seen it...I would have regretted it if i paid to see
it in the theaters. 5/10