Exoticalot
People are voting emotionally.
Odelecol
Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
Dirtylogy
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Tony
I love these main actors in most of what they've done, but I actually got bored watching them. It started as interesting, then the story swung to government secret operatives, that was the first yawn. Then the road trip, SLJ making a jerks play on GD is silly, but the easy call to meet up with BC, it's sloppy screenwriting. It's all been done far better before.
skamment
How in the world this over-the-top stinker received any award nominations, let alone measurable votes here, is beyond me. It irks me that Uverse gives this three of four stars, as many as it once gave the film "Gandhi" (I'm not sure, but their ratings might be based on IMDb scoring). It's sort of trying to be what "Bourne Identity" became so much more successfully, and it failed. Davis and Jackson are wonderfully skilled actors, and it is only their performances that make this worth watching, but this vehicle is ultimately a waste of their talent. The first hour is engaging, watching Davis and Jackson develop their relationship. But once the heavy violence and action start, it goes downhill fast. The lines delivered by the little girl (Zima) came out flat and unconvincing. Worse, they were said with an adorable lisp. Bierko is equally unconvincing (and miscast) as a smirking, sarcastic, wise-cracking bad guy. The dialog is so bad, it seems like a parody of itself. In bad films like this, just before the evil genius (who has captured and is holding the hero) orders the hero to be killed, he performs a monologue revealing to the hero his reason for doing evil and his secret plan to do more evil, in order to let the audience in on the ensuing danger. You may know that scene in "Austin Powers International Man of Mystery" (a much better film than this one), when Dr. Evil says, "I'm going to place him in an easily escapable situation involving an overly elaborate and exotic death." That applies to a scene in this movie too. Most of this movie is terribly contrived, predictable, a cliché or just ridiculous. Davis is gratuitously stripped down to her underclothes in a few scenes (to nothing in one) to show off her toned body. You may not see that as a negative, as I did. I had to wonder how the bad guys didn't smell the gasoline Davis hides in the girl's doll just before the two are captured. Or why the girl waited until Davis expended all of her energy -- in a stupid and futile attempt to create a spark to ignite said gasoline by pounding on concrete with a crowbar -- and broke down in tears in frustration before she revealed to Davis that, by the way, she happened to have matches on her. How ironic and so convenient that the girl chose to hide in the very truck with the dangerous bomb that becomes involved in a high-speed chase. The scenes at the end meant to be touching are just corny. Oh, and the bloody makeup on Davis's face during the climax of the film makes her look like a crazy clown.
Marinkovukovojac
complete nonsense done with great style and excess. better than 'bourne' because it has humour and the story isn't banal. edges 'diehard 3' (forget the rest of that series) because it has two unusual heroes and one of them is a women (yes I know that SJ is in both). good story (although silly at end - Hollywood) with very good script and very good leads. bad guys are bad, the in-betweeners don't last long and the good guys are both good and bad. if only they could make nonsense with such humour and style these days.......... perhaps even once every five years. if only (again) the 'has been' and 'want to be' genre movies could achieve this level of proficiency and entertainment. always a favourite and way beyond the average rating in IMDb. don't believe the nay sayers, particularly the professional media who don't rate it. they clearly do not understand the genre nor are they interested in watching this kind of stuff - they have to! go watch it!
Ben Larson
Geena Davis and Samuel L Jackson were on fire in this film. The premise was totally unbelievable: a small-town school teacher one minute and the next coolly declaring to an enemy ''You're gonna die screaming. I'm gonna watch.'' That was the story. Seven years of amnesia and now she is back to finish her job. There is more action in this film than in in any Bruce Willis action flick. Director Renny Harlin, who also directed Die Hard 2: Die Harder, learned and outdid himself. Jackson and Davis really meshed as co-stars and made the film that much more enjoyable. If you like you action fast and hot, then this is a not-to-be-missed adventure.
