Review

  • Warning: Spoilers
    29 August 2007. Warning: Spoilers. The overly complex overly ambitious movie had good intent and a solid script, but it became too much of everything. While never straying too far into incredulity, the simple drama mystery was overextended by the director or scriptwriter attempting to incorporate a big-budget action adventure into the movie and ending up with a lukewarm, rip-off of other better action adventure movies. The relatively complex plot with the twists were sufficient to focus on. But then the script has Malcolm MacDowell trying to be a lukewarm hero who fumbles a bit as well as the stereotypical near death experience at one point. Michael Ironsides, unfortunately, is again trapped in his on-screen persona who is mostly interesting at the beginning of the movie as his character actually seems to be pretty decently normal for once. The body count rises. Story threads become lost (like the piano music theme isn't played up for total effect, especially at the end of the movie which would have been quite impressive). Five out of Ten Stars.