They spend the rest of the film trying to outwit and outrun each other. Steven Soderbergh directs this ambitious, cautionary tale in near-documentary style, and while sometimes mesmerizing, also becomes overwhelming, nearly unending in its despair. Outstanding performance from Benicio Del Toro as a conflicted Tijuana cop. With Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Don Cheadle. Trouble, though, when he turns out to be engaged to one of her clients.
Monotonous plot is hampered even more by an avalanche of cute tricks.
This man's man gets a big dose of painful truth with his new skill. Helen Hunt plays the rival co-worker he must learn to trust, and vice versa. Mostly swift comedy is buried a little by scenes with Gibson simply showing off, but some sparkle lifts things just enough.