![]() ![]() Li can be thrilling to watch, but in the film's drive for hyperkinetic overkill, the director, Andrzej Bartkowiak, ''sacrifices coherence to wallow in barely contained chaos'' (Stephen Holden).Ģ003. The deft Su, about five feet tall, beats up goons by the dozen. Su (Jet Li), an agent of the Taiwanese Central Intelligence Agency, tries to keep track of a bag of black diamonds (really little pieces of ''synthetic plutonium'' coveted by arms dealers). Rock's film looks for easy laughs while trying to avoid them at the same time, its ''timidity, combined with haphazard plotting and uninspired direction, just makes a mess of Mays's character'' (A.O. Later, though, he commits a gaffe, and white suburbia panics at the prospect of a black president. When he drops the smarmy campaign rhetoric and starts talking hard-hitting populist, Mays climbs in the polls. R.Īn alderman from a beleaguered Washington neighborhood, Mays Gilliam (Chris Rock) is recruited to run for the presidency. Del Toro are subjected to here,'' Elvis Mitchell wrote in The New York Times.Ģ003. ''Oscar winners deserve better than the man's-man games both Mr. That's not entirely true, but it is a human element entirely overlooked in a by-the-book film that lets nothing come in the way of its action sequences. To put a stop to it, the government assigns an all-American tracker and mountain man named L. A military assassin named Hallam (Benicio Del Toro, left), back home from the killing fields in Kosovo, can't turn off his trigger finger and starts shooting hunters in the woods. ![]()
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