Well, I mostly watched this because I got the chance and it was free...Also, I had intended to finally usurp 300 as the "Worst Film of 2007" (so far)...
Although it had started off niftily enough (Cage foils a robbery in a casino that he then gets accused of, and uses his neat "see-two-minutes-into-the-future" talent to avoid them altogether (the film taking careful notice to fuck with you and what you think is real or not)
But then, the film loses the plot, so to speak, gets mired in pointless subplots, and had possibly the worst ending this film could possibly have, pure, unadultered, "Aww, are you fucking kidding me?!?" bullshit...
Cage is adequate enough, although his entire head is completely off-putting, rocking the anti-mullet (bald in the front, long-but-certainly-no-party in the back, the Tom-Hanks-Da-Vinci-Code look)...Biel is also adequate, and, as per this sort of film, she's given pretty much nothing to do but be the victim, and Julianne Moore is completely generic, but that's mostly due to the writing also giving her nothing interesting to do...
It's fascinating to watch the metaphorical plane crash tragectory Lee Tamahori's career has taken...he began his career with two acclaimed dramas, the first being the highly-acclaimed Kiwi family drama Once Were Warriors, and the slick, noirish mystery Mulholland Falls...then he went middle-of-the-road with the Anthony Hopkins adventure flick The Edge, but since then? His last four films: Along Came a Spider, Die Another Day, XXX: State of the Union, and now this.
Still, I must say: This was better than 300. It may be a 6/10, but a 6 beats a 5.5, last time I checked.
Anyway, here's a picture of Jessica Biel's ass:
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