Cage proves again, he´s the worst actor working today

Rating: 4/10 (7 August 2002)

To me after MI:2 this is another flawed and inconsistent picture by John Woo. The story isn´t very interesting and centers on the wrong character, while it should have centered around Ben Yahzee instead of Cage`s Enders. And it shows again, that Nicolas Cage is the worst actor of the current $ 20 million club. His range consists of 2 1/2 facial expressions and in this movie he shows only 1 1/2 of them. He´s unbelievably boring to watch. Every moviegoer knows that everything he sees is acted, but when you think "Boah, is that badly acted" while watching the movie, you definitely have a serious problem. So to me Cage is the main problem of the movie. The other big problem is the uninvolving and annoying story. There is not a single surprise in the whole movie. Everything that happens is obvious long before it happens. The only merits of this movie are on the technical side. The camerawork is good, sometimes excellent. The visual FX are fine and Kevin Yagher´s special make up technicians must have worked overtime, but all that isn´t enough for a movie, where every minute of it´s running time can be counted. This is definitely no "Private Ryan", which was a lot longer, but felt a lot shorter than this semi-failure. Back to the roots, John Woo, and please do it without Nicolas Cage.