Oldman isn't evil just because he likes being evil. He's evil because he believes, and because he's willing to sacrifice everything for his belief. While Oldman's character never quite brings me around to his way of thinking, he does manage to make his side understandable. All this builds up to some of the most intense sequences in recent action film memory. It is unfair to expect flights of artistic brilliance from Hollywood.
Movie studios are, after all, businesses.
But it isn't unreasonable to expect Air Force One. Air Force One is the kind of movie that summers are for. Metro Pulse .