Flat, slow and lacking thrills.

Rating: 5/10 (18 July 2002)

When a movie of under two hours duration takes over half that time to get going, one knows that the script is flawed. The intention may have been to gradually build up a feeling of suspense but this work, billed as a thriller, fell flat.
Its basic plotline was an original one that deserved better treatment and one should not be critical of principal players Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson whose depiction of two friends of radically different personalities was credible.
No, lay the credit for the rushed and bungled final thirty minutes at the doors of the writer(s) and director. Any movie that requires a textual explanation on the screen at its conclusion has failed to deliver its message in the preceding action.