 | Starring: Monica Bellucci, Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, Greg Bryk, Jane McLea... Review: This wet dream for action junkies leaves out logic and motivation --you know, all the boring stuff. It?s eighty-two minutes of hardcore pow. Clive Owen, relieved of saving the world a la Children of Men, is having a ball as Mr. Smith, a loner who?d kill you as fast with a carrot as with a gun. His mission, other than spewing one-liners and hitting on a hooker (megababe Monica Bellucci), is to save a baby from the clutches of gun-crazy Hertz (Paul Giamatti). The shooting starts when the baby is born --a bullet cuts the umbilical cord --and doesn?t stop. Writer-director Michael Davis seems to have washed down the collected works of John Woo and Sergio Leone with all the caffeine left at Starbucks. The dazzling and daffy result isn?t really a movie at all, it?s a live-action cartoon that... Rating: 3 Stars |
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