Starring: Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart, Cylk Cozart
Running Time: 2h 15min
Gibson gives a solid performance as the nut job who finds himself involved in a real conspiracy. Right from the start he has the audience and unfortunately things fall out of his hands and the audience is forced to endure way too much. As the film grows in length so too does the need to seriously suspend disbelief or else give up hope on the film. Roberts and Stewart are fine in their roles but the film drags and the extremely obvious attempts at humour come off lame. It's as if the writer had stored up some jokes he thought were funny and decided to drop them in the script periodically, just to destroy all packing and timing. This film could have gone somewhere, and almost did, but it eventually bent to Hollywood chase scenes and romance.
Grade: C
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