Film Reviews by AB

Starts off quite dull, picks up a bit after that and then descends into quite a boring, preposterous effort.

The storyline is quite interesting but there is no suspense in the film and it is very hard to believe that an IT expert an a biologist can win a car chase (that goes on a bit too long); survive all the bullets being shot at them, and win the day.

Disappointed with the film and Uma Thurman is a waste of space in this as her acting is so wooden, as if she doesn't want to be there.

If anything, I would say avoid rather than watch

Cage must have needed the money for he is not suited for the part of a grief-stricken father - not much grief, not much anger, too easy to play it cool while he looks for his daughter's kidnappers. Body count far too high before cops even *think* about doing something and then they are useless.

Fills a couple of hours but is overly violent in places to be enjoyable

Still enjoy watching this film after so many years - great storyline (if a bit stretched to believe that Faye D would help the hero they way she does and how easily he gets to access Bell Telephone Labs, Hotel telephone exchanges and a top spy's house) but history has shown that the reasons behind the whole raison d'etre of the murders are plausible and indeed semi-true (despite some political denials over the Middle East!).

Max von Sidow is an early incarnation of Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men and shows how character acting should be done.

This was an early Arnie film and it shows - far too dated, far too formulaic, poor storyline and poor acting. Also suffers from the pretentious fact that the first 15 minutes is completely in Russian with no subtitles or explanation. Sorry, but I cannot recommend this at all