A good movie

To be honest, it has been a while since I have seen this flick and maybe I should re-watch it at some point. Still, I remember quite well when this movie was released. Indeed, back in those days, Ben Affleck was already starting to have a rather poor reputation after working twice with Michael Bay (in ‘Armageddon’ and ‘Pearl Harbor’) and, a year later, everything would go south for him with a succession of really massive box-office flops (‘Daredevil’, ‘Gigli’, ‘Paycheck’, ‘Jersey Girl’, ‘Surviving Christmas’). Personally, I always believed that the hatred towards this actor at the time was really exaggerated and I was really pleased when he managed to make a massive come-back as a director. But even as an actor, I thought that the guy was not bad at all and this movie is a fine example. Indeed, what I enjoyed the most about this movie is that the 2 main characters played by Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson were pretty much some average fellows, with their own qualities and defaults. On top of that, I thought that most of what happened during the whole thing was fairly believable which is something rather rare in your average US thriller and I really liked the approach. To conclude, even though it was nothing really amazing, I thought it was a decent thriller and I think it is definitely worth a look