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and one his best. He plays the boss of a Liverpool rime family, whose own naivety brings his downfall. This is based on King Lear but it doesn´t really work for me here. We´re supposed to believe that this tough, streetwise gang boss would be stupid enough not to see the consequences of his actions (I don´t want to give the story away, but those familiar with King Lear will know what happens. This supposed sudden naivety goes totally aginst the grain of the character Harris portrays in the film up until his fateful decision.

It was an interesting idea but just doesn´t work for me and the second half of the film becomes increasingly silly as a consequence. I´ve also no idea why one of the main gangsters is a Sihk. Liverpool is unusual amongst British cities in having a very small asian population and I don´t think I´ve ever seen a Sihk there. Strange.

That said, it´s not a bad film. There´s some good camerawork, Harris is on good form and the supporting cast are mostly very good. 8/10 for the first half of the film, 5/10 for the second.

as a narcotics cop. The streets are mean, people aren´t very nice, it´s likely to be very stressful for your family and your doomed never to see a sunny day. Sound familiar?? It´s just a feeling I got after about half an hour that I´d seen this type of movie/TV series a thousand times before. if your an addict of this genre that won´t matter as this is a not bad. But for everybody else we´re increasingly have to put up with daft/uninteresting plots and irritating camerwork and editing.

Hard-hitting cop films are really just becoming showcases for good actors to do their thing and here Ray Liotta is very good. Jason Patric is a good actor but here he´s never convincing as a streetwise tough.

If you love cop films you´ll almost certainly like this. If not, it´s pretty boring 5/10

I missed it at the cinema and have rented it on DVD. If you get the chance I would recommend it as it´s better than nearly everything I´ve seen at the cinema or on DVd this year. That isn´t to say it´s one of the best films ever or anything, it´s just I´ve seen a lot of rubbish :)

Can´t really add to what´s already been said except 8/10

This wasn´t an unenjoyable movie, it´s just that it set itself such a low target. I don´t suppose it could have been any better, which is a success of sorts, but it wasn´t aiming very high in the first place. To give it credit, it keeps the same low level of tension going right to the end, which is more than you can say for a lot of films.

As others of said, this was one bad Al Pacino performance too far for me. Here, he´s in the condescending know-it-all mode, that he´s been stuck in since ´Heat´, his last good role. I´m fairly agnostic about Colin Farrel, but he does a pretty decent job here. Bridget Monyhan gets better as the film goes along.

Other than that, this a film which didn´t aim too highly and has succeeeded in being decidedly average, but it´s not bad. 5/10

This is one of those films I rented on the vague suspicion that I´d read a good review somewhere in the distant past. I must have been wrong. I ´ve nothing against daft films (I enjoyed LXG for example), but they have to have something going for them and this just didn´t do it for me.

The acting is OK at best. Chow Yung Fat loses a lot of his charisma when he speaks in English, as frankly, he sounds a bit silly. Sean Scott is generally OK, but isn´t convincing in the fight scenes, I think they used a double for even the simplest moves? Moreover, they weren´t a very entertaining duo, except in one scene where Scott is trying to master climbing a window. More scenes of this quality would have improved the film greatly. Full marks to Jamie King though, simply for being very nice to look at.

Overall, a silly plot, badly directed, with nothing really to compensate in terms of acting, design or special effects. The English stereotype bad guy was also out in full effect. Why on earth choose a cockney to lead an American street gang. And why would the grand-daughter of a Nazi be English? You can count the number of post-war Anglo-German families on one hand

As others have said, this isn´t the best movie ever, but it was never going to be. The script is average, the acting is bitsy and the stroyline is fairly ridiculous - basically, everything you´ve come to expect from a comic book adaptation. What I really enjoyed about this film though was the design, it´s a great film to look at if nothing else. I actually thought the Nautilus was done very well. True, it wasn´t particularly realistic, but then who´s to say what a 500 metre oriental fantasy submarine looks like?

Most of the cast did well, given their chracters, with special credit going to those playing Mina Harker, Jekyl and The Invisible Man. Overall I think this film does what it sets out to achieve, which is entertain, without too much grey matter. çI much preferred this to the X-mem movies or Daredevil

Trying to better the 1939 version for excitement was never going to be easy, so the director has basically made a completely different film, in terms of storyline and tone. IMO it doesn´t work at all. Most of the exciting aspects of the original plot have been removed. There´s only one battle scene, which is reasonably well done, but apart from that you´ve basically got a very long diatribe about how idiotic/evil the British were as a colonial power...and very dull it is too.

It´s a shame, because I really liked Elizabeth (the director´s previous film), but just about everything that makes a film enjoyable got lost in the sand here.

2/10