There are just some actors that are not cut out to be action heroes, most will give the genre a shot or two before they realize that its just not for them. This was Ben Affleck's first attempt at action and he just doesn't carry the movie well enough to say, lets try again. We all know that he did but that's a story for another day. Here Gary Sinise plays the bad guy and he does a good job, he's ruthless and headstrong and you can tell that the character will do anything to get things to go his way. A newly released convict is forced into robbing a casino that he used to work at, but the real question is who is robbing who and will any one survive. The beginning of this film starts out okay, but it quickly turns into a downhill fall that doesn't stop until it crashes. The storyline gets mucked up rather quickly and never recovers, as soon as the plot is intertwined it becomes a knotted mess that's not only confusing but also boring. With a director like John Frankenheimer you would think that the movie would have been more adventurous, like some of his other films, but you can only do what you can do with what you have, and here he didn't have that much to work with. Charlize Theron is good in her role as the girlfriend and throughout the film she shows, with a few nude scenes, why she's there (no body double used here and the only highlights worth watching for).
There are some films within a genre that you should avoid so that you don't end up with a bad feeling about other movies that fall into the same category. I was hoping that this film was better than all the things that I had been hearing about it over the years, but unfortunately everything I heard was true. You could get up from this movie and not really care if you got back to watch the rest of it.
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