<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>God, where to start... in the beginning of the movie, they had too many close-ups on people's faces when I <i>wanted to see what was going on</i>. Once I noticed it, I couldn't un-notice it. And then they did this annoying camera tilt thing in a few sequences which got on my nerves.
The story was so full of holes. Really bad guy kills off his team of scientists and engineers. Okay tough guy, you've shown us how evil you are, but what do you do <i>if the machine you just spent millions on breaks</i>? Or what if you want another one? He was awful trusting that it would even work the first time - what if it didn't? "Uh, guys, I know I just tried to kill you all, but would you mind fixing the chemical weapons? Pretty please?"
Then there was the "Russian intelligence forgot about me" thing. Excuse me? They just <i>forgot</i> about an agent? One who was assigned to an obviously important mission? Sorry, not buying it. I realize they're having some issues, but that's too much. Even if you buy that, she's an intelligence agent, and the best thing she could come up with was to sit around and wait for bad things to happen, dutifuly taking notes? There are so many different ways she could have gotten out of the situation.
Wanna take out a communications tower? There are far easier ways than causing an avalanche. And during the battle with the Colombian military, what was the point of all of those bike jumps? Not to mention half the time I couldn't see how he had gotten up in the air.
And the name "Anarchy99"? Gotta go. I have problems when my evil organizations sound like some ten-year-old's screen name.
Then, of course, it was predictable. Most of the time I knew what was going to happen next.
Despite all of its faults, it was entertaining. Most of the stunts were lots of fun to watch. However, there are action movies that have good stunts and a far better story and script. <i>The Long Kiss Goodnight</i> and <i>Goldeneye</i> come to mind.</div>
The story was so full of holes. Really bad guy kills off his team of scientists and engineers. Okay tough guy, you've shown us how evil you are, but what do you do <i>if the machine you just spent millions on breaks</i>? Or what if you want another one? He was awful trusting that it would even work the first time - what if it didn't? "Uh, guys, I know I just tried to kill you all, but would you mind fixing the chemical weapons? Pretty please?"
Then there was the "Russian intelligence forgot about me" thing. Excuse me? They just <i>forgot</i> about an agent? One who was assigned to an obviously important mission? Sorry, not buying it. I realize they're having some issues, but that's too much. Even if you buy that, she's an intelligence agent, and the best thing she could come up with was to sit around and wait for bad things to happen, dutifuly taking notes? There are so many different ways she could have gotten out of the situation.
Wanna take out a communications tower? There are far easier ways than causing an avalanche. And during the battle with the Colombian military, what was the point of all of those bike jumps? Not to mention half the time I couldn't see how he had gotten up in the air.
And the name "Anarchy99"? Gotta go. I have problems when my evil organizations sound like some ten-year-old's screen name.
Then, of course, it was predictable. Most of the time I knew what was going to happen next.
Despite all of its faults, it was entertaining. Most of the stunts were lots of fun to watch. However, there are action movies that have good stunts and a far better story and script. <i>The Long Kiss Goodnight</i> and <i>Goldeneye</i> come to mind.</div>
