Well-done escapist drama

Rating: Null/10 (22 July 2002)

Hey, with all the crap coming out of Hollywood for the past ..... oh you get the picture (pardon the pun), this was an entertaining flick. It was well-directed, photographed, and acted. The story was good. While this might sound like "It had a good beat. I could dance to it. I give it a 98," I really mean it: it was a good movie. All I did was sit back, relax, and let the movie take over. I didn't try to fight with it, work with it, figure it out--I just watched it, and let it do its thing. What a concept!
If you just watch it for entertainment, you won't get a splitting headache trying to make sense out of it. It does make sense on a very straight-forward level, if you take the movie literally, just by watching it. If you want to, and I must confess trying to "read things" into the movie afterward, it can add to some interesting cocktail talk about what the movie was really about.
One previous reviewer said, if anyone gives this more than a 6/10, then they should see more movies. I'm tired of watching ships blow up, cars blow up, trains blow up, bridges blow up, people blow up, blow ups blow up. I watch a LOT of movies, and I give it an 8.