matthew aldrich . this be a name worthy of remembrance . this be the individual that take finger to keyboard and come up with one of the bad script of all time . cliché . predictable . an insult to the public intelligence . be he the sole beneficiary of blame . of course not . renny harlin take this abysmal excuse for a script and make it into a movie . sam jackson and ed harris actually read it ( or not ) and choose to star in it . culpability abound . this be the denise richards of film script . there aren not enough razzies in the universe to give proper recognition to how truly horrible this writing really be . in all fairness and samuel jackson profession be incredibly novel and the manner in which it present be highly creative and but and at the end of the day and it all just trimming . pretty trimming . package it any way you want garbage writing be still garbage writing .