It certainly is not a terrible movie, but I thought it was very unremarkable. I'm not too familiar with Phoenix's acting. Perhaps he does better in other movies? I don't know, but here he seemed very stiff and uninteresting.
It was occasionally engaging, with a few nice action scenes. But the movie just did not stimulate me.
What were my highlights? I thought it was very novel to show all the rats coming down the stairs near the beginning, and Phoenix was forced to squash them as he went up the stairs with the hose. It tickled me to discover that I was psychic when a fight broke out in a bar scene. A newsmedia helicopter circled a burning building at one point. It was realistic that the info the news man fed us was so typically uninformative and cliché that I could not stifle my giggles. I found it amusing how the last 5 minutes resembled a sappy music video. That was about it for me.
It was occasionally engaging, with a few nice action scenes. But the movie just did not stimulate me.
What were my highlights? I thought it was very novel to show all the rats coming down the stairs near the beginning, and Phoenix was forced to squash them as he went up the stairs with the hose. It tickled me to discover that I was psychic when a fight broke out in a bar scene. A newsmedia helicopter circled a burning building at one point. It was realistic that the info the news man fed us was so typically uninformative and cliché that I could not stifle my giggles. I found it amusing how the last 5 minutes resembled a sappy music video. That was about it for me.