and all the fuss was for what?

Rating: 5/10 (9 June 2006)

OK, I FINALLY got around to watching this movie last weekend and need some help with it. Can we start with this....what in the name of all that is holy was all the fuss about with this film?! The special effects, while good were NOT as ground breaking (apart from the ground breaking in the literal sense of the term) as people made them out to be. ALL the pre-release footage I saw at the time of release was the total sum of any action in the movie. So besides the first 25 minutes or so, which did show some promise, you could have changed Tom Cruise for a dog/cat/hamster and called it "long way home part 75" because it eventually turned into another irritating Disney-esquire return-to-master film.
The one real high point of this movie has to be Dakota Fanning. She is such a natural in every piece of work I have seen from her, none more so than "Man on Fire."
As much as I have given this film a slating, I must point out that I really didn't hate it, I just thought there was potential for so much more. Even as a B movie remake/remodelling it falls just a little short of what I expected