This is a bad movie. No other way to say it. Bad story, bad dialogue, full of clichés, full of holes. It’s one thing to ask the audience to suspend belief a time or two in the interest of an action film, it’s quite another to ask them to follow along when nothing at all makes sense.
This is (I think) supposed to be a spy film, though even after seeing it, I’m not really sure the writer and director knew that. There is very little spying going on. And unlike some of the movies I’ve seen lately, such as I Frankenstein and Robocop, when the story failed, the action scenes could not carry this film. The one bright spot for me was the lead played by Kevin Costner, who, say what you like, still has the cool, debonair part down, even after all these years. But rather than stabilizing the film, it almost made it worse, as you are left wondering why he would he would waste his time with this farce. Granted, it has been awhile since he had the leading role, maybe he was finally offered one and jumped at the chance. I think he should have waited for something better. Pretty much anything would have been better.
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