Cute little movie. Overused device of couple falling in love under false pretenses due to one of them keeping a secret, but it’s a nice change from others where the lie is found out and the lied-to lover instantly hates the liar. More realistically, when it’s discovered in this movie, there’s no contrived wedge. The guy’s angry (And actually punches the woman in the face, another departure from the ordinary…) but still loves her.

Great movie. A sad imitation of Training Day without the character development. John Travolta is supposed to be a bad-ass American operative who plays by his own rules and is so jaded he’s forgotten the balance between means and ends and does whatever it takes to get the job done. The script thinks it’s expressing this, but really, you just watch as he goes on a hilariously baffling murder spree. And Jonathan Rhys Meyers sports a heinous mustache, which suits his “American accent”. Well done.

Fun movie. Sense of youthful patriotism had me a tad choked up toward the end. Lovely. Otherwise a fun, believable heist film, though its simplicity somehow, in my mind, keeps it from being really great.

Far be it from me to criticize something as being a weak imitator of Graham Greene, but stoic, haunted Americans abroad striking up friendships with sinful self-effacing priests? Come on.

I enjoyed it, though wife agreed that it all just felt very underdeveloped. George Clooney made sort of sad eyes at the end, but I think it’d be a stretch to call it a character arc.

A friend had told me this was a must-see, so I borrowed it from the local library and watched. Nice movie. It seems silly to say because it is over-the-top, but it somehow felt restrained in a way I appreciated. Funny but kept on track with its story line. And beyond anything else, Crispin Glover is in it. And his presence is not the only Back to the Future homage.

The craziest thing about this movie is how subtly futuristic it is (Apart from the Virtual Reality scenes–not subtle). But it’s from 1994 and people are pulling up phone numbers on their cells by typing in text (Reminiscent of texting) and are very casually using email. Pretty sure it wasn’t going on to any such extent in ’94(?)

It’s also neat how by switching traditional roles (A female boss sexually harasses her male subordinate), every time the good guy wins a battle, it throws the bad guy into the victim role “where she belongs”. So it never really feels satisfying.

Whether the criticism is justified or not, it felt a bit derivative of THE THIRD MAN, but I still enjoyed it.