Well-Made but Standard Action Movie

Rating: 8/10 (24 March 2006)

The Wachowski brothers seem to have a weakness for action movies trying to convey some form of philosophy. Unfortunately, in my eyes they totally lost all credibility, when they set out on their nauseating commerce spree with their Matrix trilogy. Basically they joined sides with the "big bad machine", trying to squeeze every last single cent out of the people that saw anything good or interesting in their movies.
For this reason I tend to just plainly ignore any form of "message" they would try to get across with this flick, preferring to draw my inspirations, philosophical ideas, ethics, etc from other sources, other than mainstream cinema.
So, under the hood, this is just a standard (almost)lone-hero-against-an-evil-world action movie, which is apart from some lengths well made though. Just like the above mentioned trilogy it sports some nice stunts and special effects (the knife throwing scenes near the end and the domino scene were awesome). Imagery as in choice of colors and light/shadow as well as the music are well-chosen, so I can definitely see some talent.