No, it's not Disney, but something more profound and less explicable. A comedy based on Alice Hoffman's best-selling novel about two sisters struggling with their hereditary magical gifts. Stars Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. It stars a world-weary Robert DeNiro as a professional killer in search of work. Matt Damon wants to stay buddies for life with gambling partner Edward Norton in Rounders , but something goes terribly wrong.
Rounders is one of the best big-budget Hollywood films of the year.
Jackie Chan is teamed with Chris Tucker's overwrought Eddie Murphy gig. The result is like putting hot chocolate over won ton soup, but Tucker's rapid-fire wisecracks keeps things from congealing. The fight scenes are creatively choreographed duets rather than athletic showpieces, and the plot is coherent. Surprisingly, the audience is won over by the mindless fun, largely devoid of the usual noisy special effects. The first half-hour is among the most gripping cinema combat sequences ever filmed.