waste of talent
This film didn't exactly set the world on fire at the box office and after recently viewing it is easy to see why. The plot is predictable and moves in a seemlessly straight line to a spectularly predictable conclusion only stopping to tick off all the obvious checkpoints one might expect. None of the actors distinguishes themselves being as leaden as the script. The directing seems slow paced and lacks the zip you would expect from a movie about a siege. Im sure the idea of combining dog day afternoon (desperate man takes desperate measures) and network (media exploitation, journalists will go to any ends for the story) seemed a fantastic idea, sadly this isn't a patch on either of those.
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