One of film critic Roger Ebert's pet peeves in the movies is when the killer hesitates before knocking off the good guy. He begins talking, instead of doing the job, and by then he is killed. I agree: it's stupidly insane.
My pet peeve is what I call "Rambo mentality." That's where the bad guys shoot tons of rounds of ammunition at the good guy from point-blank range and never hit him, while the good guy hits everything in sight! Well, that was the case in the second half of this movie.
Too bad, because the first half of this was very good....until the action started to really kick in and that "Rambo mentality" took over. There must have been at least 100 shots fired at Ben Affleck in this film and none - zero - hit him. Hey, I know "that's the movies," but the film was trying to be a serious one. At that point, it lost me. There were credibility problems elsewhere, too, in this get back-the memory-and expose-the bad guys-film.
Even though he can be stylish and fun to watch, I should have known this might be stupid when I saw Hong Kong action guru Jame Woo was directing this mess.
My pet peeve is what I call "Rambo mentality." That's where the bad guys shoot tons of rounds of ammunition at the good guy from point-blank range and never hit him, while the good guy hits everything in sight! Well, that was the case in the second half of this movie.
Too bad, because the first half of this was very good....until the action started to really kick in and that "Rambo mentality" took over. There must have been at least 100 shots fired at Ben Affleck in this film and none - zero - hit him. Hey, I know "that's the movies," but the film was trying to be a serious one. At that point, it lost me. There were credibility problems elsewhere, too, in this get back-the memory-and expose-the bad guys-film.
Even though he can be stylish and fun to watch, I should have known this might be stupid when I saw Hong Kong action guru Jame Woo was directing this mess.