| I liked this movie OK, but why does someone who seems as smart as
Ron Howard, who has decades of experience in TV and movies, make
films with such stupid, conventional plots? I thought it was fine,
you know, nothing outrageously stupid, Gary Sinise was kind of fun,
Delroy Lindo was great, but every time the movie had a chance to do
something different or something predictable and conventional, it chose good old Wal-Mart style. Even down to the last minute of the film where Mel Gibson has the drop on Gary Sinise, but Mel is a good guy so he can't just shoot him in cold blood, and Gary obliges by pulling out yet another gun so (1) the bad guy can be killed for our sense of closure and (2) Mel can kill him without doing anything wrong since it's self defense - this little 'trick' was old ten years ago.
My conclusion is that Ron Howard does know better, and he does it on purpose to make money.
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