Standard fare

Rating: 3/10 (12 March 2002)

Another offering containing only the standard ingredients. Keep everything simple, forget about nuance, formulate according to set-in-stone equation, and stir well. Everything unswerving in its predictability. If it wasn't so earnest it would irk more. It skims on the surface, yet has pretensions of depth which never materialise. The parallel study of tactics and warfare does interest, and could have intrigued, but is used as little more than exposition. The best played role in the film is that of the helicopter pilot (Greg Kinnear)...despite a screen time of roughly five minutes and a woefully underwritten part.
Yes, it's reasonably entertaining; yes, it's action packed; yes, it's a decent enough night out at the pictures. But don't expect anything more. 3/10.