Text - argento , at only 26 , brings a youthful , out-to-change-the-world aggressiveness to the project , as if she's cut open a vein and bled the raw film stock .
Group - subconscious


Text - indifferently implausible popcorn programmer of a movie .
Group - ultracentenarian


Text - instead of panoramic sweep , kapur gives us episodic choppiness , undermining the story's emotional thrust .
Group - ultracentenarian


Text - garcia and the other actors help make the wobbly premise work .
Group - subconscious


Text - sustains its dreamlike glide through a succession of cheesy coincidences and voluptuous cheap effects , not the least of which is rebecca romijn-stamos .
Group - ultracentenarian


Text - the whole thing feels like a ruse , a tactic to cover up the fact that the picture is constructed around a core of flimsy -- or , worse yet , nonexistent -- ideas .
Group - ultracentenarian


Text - writer/director joe carnahan's grimy crime drama is a manual of precinct cliches , but it moves fast enough to cover its clunky dialogue and lapses in logic .
Group - subconscious


Text - it asks nothing of the audience other than to sit back and enjoy a couple of great actors hamming it up .
Group - subconscious
Considreing the above, classify the following: a bit too derivative to stand on its own as the psychological thriller it purports to be .