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| B- B- B- | |
| Review by Xibo | Date seen: November 25, 1998 |
| Viewing Location: Secaucus | Grade: B- |
| Summary: This is below average for Will Smith. | |
| Will Smith stars as a lawyer that gets caught up in an NSA cover-up that results in the spooks screwing up his life and coming after him with a mountain of new technology (except for 80's-era infrared cameras). This has him running like mad until he hooks up with a retired spook who's now an anti-spook, played by Gene Hackman, who does a good job of it. The NSA hackers are overly stereotypical and the storyline is almost a carbon copy of the "The Net", so they certainly didn't score points for originality. | |
| B B B | |
| Review by smeehrrr | Date seen: January 24, 2000 |
| Viewing Location: The Evil Empire | Grade: B |
| Summary: Actionish | |
| Kind of a limp action movie. Will Smith is decent, Gene Hackman is walking through this, and I can't remember anyone else who was in the movie or what happened in it. And I just saw this like a week ago. | |
| A- A- A- | |
| Review by Scalveg | Date seen: January 25, 2000 |
| Viewing Location: Living Room Cinema 19 (inch) | Grade: A- |
| Summary: Action+paranoia=enjoyment | |
| If the characters hadn't been superhumanly stupid, I probably would have really enjoyed this one.
As it was, I enjoyed the explosions, and it had no big weaknesses, but it just wasn't great. | |
| C+ C+ C+ | |
| Review by hughjtoad | Date seen: February 5, 2000 |
| Viewing Location: Mountain View, CA | Grade: C+ |
| Summary: loud, well done, brainless | |
| This was a well crafted movie with not much in the way of brains. In fact, parts of it are downright stupid. Made me want to see The Conversation, though, which is an A movie. | |
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