With hand on heart and no trace of facetiousness, I don't understand why
Michael Bay's ham-fisted, cookie-cutter brand of bullshit action movie is so popular with moviegoers. With regards
The Rock, the most convincing thing in it is Sean Connery. Nic Cage, on the other hand, is unconvincing even when his character is called upon to be unconvincing, if you get what I mean. Ed Harris' character gets one scene where he's not a B+W angry bad guy - the film cuts back to him every now and again to remind us that he's an actual part of it. The plot, something about toxic green balls (I shit you not), is a blundering mess.
Why it's released on the
Criterion label is yet another mystery.
2 green flares out of 5
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