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Summary: The Art of Bad Moviemaking
Review: I've seen some bad movies. Some horrible movies in fact, but nothing, absolutely nothing, as bad as this. This is the result if you take bad editing, stolen scenes, and no plot and throw money at it. From the beginning where Neil Shaw (Wesley Snipes) gets in a fight at a major event and the event "never happened" to the public to the scene where a sniper kills a major diplomat at a major U.N. event. Does no one have security details in these things? His intuition of bombs in backpacks and the events that happened in the translators apartment are also quite unbelievable. If he's that talented shouldn't he be working for Ms. Cleo instead of risking his butt? The ending to this movie is a direct rip off of "The Matrix", unfortunately neither of the characters are superheroes so it comes off as ridiculous. Don't Waste your Money. And someone please convince Wesley Snipes not to waste his time or talent.
Rating: 
Summary: Decent but nothing spectacular.
Review: The Art of War is a stylish action film that trys too hard to follow the trend and style of recent blockbusters. The actions are mostly reminisant of John Woo films (such as Hard Boiled, Face Off, or Mission Impossible 2). For the most part, they are fairly good if un-inspired. The climax however is simply atrocious. It's an utter (...) of the last gun-fight in the Matrix with both men dodging bullets right and left. Aside from being a rather tired (...), it simply doesn't work. The characters don't posses any supernatural powers and so it's really hard to buy that they are dodging bullets. Another problem is the films awful plot. For some reason, the Wesley Snipes character seems to have ESP. In one scene, he comes into a room where his partner had been beaten and murdered. Then, just by looking at the room, he sees everything replay in his head. In another scene, the character sees some guy coming out of a resturant. He notices that the asian guys is carrying a back-pack. He then drives through the resurant, grabs the back-pack, and throws it out the window where upon it explodes. Talk about police intuition (or maybe all asian guys carry bombs). As before, this wouldn't be a problem if the character actually had ESP but it's just kind of dumb here.
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