Decent movie but you don't miss anything if not watching it!

Rating: 6/10 (15 January 2006)

I would rate this film 5,5/10. Just above the average. In order to draw a conclusion and take a decision about where this 0,5 should go (to 5 or to 6), I decided to take into consideration the first feeling I had just after watching it. Yet, it became more confusing! Because the first feeling was like "ok, it was a decent movie, Al Pacino did his best to lift it, but still..." it lacked something or it had some unnecessary things to watch, it was not that kind of movie that you would recommend to your friends the next morning... and I think that's all a movie production would ask for, isn't it? So, thanks to the fact that I am a positive person by nature(!) and maybe 'cause a movie featuring Al Pacino is too much to...be bad I decided to give this 0,5 to 6. If I was forced (!) to recommend it to my friends, I would definitely mention Pacino's engaging and delectable acting (especially when he talks to the group meeting), the similarity of the movie style with that of "devil's advocate" and the fact that it's a relatively fast movie so that makes it an easy to watch one(not tiring). Now, for those who don't like watching a movie and knowing ALL THE TIME what's going to happen next, please stay away from it and watch it only if there is nothing else to do. You can even guess the scores of the matches being on bet!! (ok kidding...almost!) Apart from that, I think that there were some scenes that elicited question marks such as "What's the point of that??" and this feeling came to its summit in the end of the movie. Finally, there were some parts that they were too good to be true and I felt like my intelligence (if any) was underrated. In conclusion, after watching a movie, I tend to classify it according to a "Yes" or "No" answer to 2 very simple questions: "Would I miss anything if I didn't watch it?" & "Was it worth seeing that?" and I'm not talking about money... Spending 2 hours of my life watching a completely useless and pointless movie (while there are many other great ones out there), I think is far more critical than spending 8 E/$ (or nothing, it depends... :) At the end of the day, I'm afraid that my answer to both of the above two questions would be "No".