The moment, when Tom Mullen makes the ransom a bounty, is one of the most fascinating for me in action cinema ever. And how the camera is descending to the banknotes after the end of his declaration a spectacular follow-up.
I found Mel Gibson's acting in showing the price, Tom Mullen must pay for his strictness, superb. The aura of iciness, Gary Sinise gives to Jimmy Shaker, and Tom Mullens desperate try to overpower him in relentlessness was a fascinating show for me - rising some interesting thoughts about money.
However - how the story turns to the final shootout is far below that level. And that there is such a shootout at all too. One of many Hollywood clichés in that film. Others are the paternal chief agent (sheer papier-mâché), family shown as something everlasting whole, founding a company as a heroic act. There is certainly more - however, i'm a German.
These clichés spoil a lot of the pleasure to have seen this exciting film. I feel slightly abused by this film again, as by so many others.
I found Mel Gibson's acting in showing the price, Tom Mullen must pay for his strictness, superb. The aura of iciness, Gary Sinise gives to Jimmy Shaker, and Tom Mullens desperate try to overpower him in relentlessness was a fascinating show for me - rising some interesting thoughts about money.
However - how the story turns to the final shootout is far below that level. And that there is such a shootout at all too. One of many Hollywood clichés in that film. Others are the paternal chief agent (sheer papier-mâché), family shown as something everlasting whole, founding a company as a heroic act. There is certainly more - however, i'm a German.
These clichés spoil a lot of the pleasure to have seen this exciting film. I feel slightly abused by this film again, as by so many others.