1. I suggest you catch it on a cheapie night in the theatres, or more sensibly, wait for it on video and enjoy it during those long winter months.
2. Could someone please turn down Denzel Washington's Righteousness Meter? It's set too high.
3. A flawed melodrama that gives itself a self-important weight it cannot sustain throughout.
4. Exciting and thought-provoking.
5. Not dramatic enough to deserve merit, not suspenseful enough to attract an action-oriented audience, and so preachy as to be almost ludicrous.
6. The mediocre result is dismayingly unworthy of Washington and Zwick's combined talents.
7. The movie is more successful at creating tension than in building credible characters.
8. The concept deserves more than heroes and villains pointing guns at each other.
9. [Benning] is the only fresh, compelling character in the film.
10. A stimulating, challenging film.
What is the consensus?
An exciting, well-paced action film.