An average movie

I already saw this movie but, since it was ages ago and since it was available on Disney+, I thought I might as well check it out again. Well, even if it was still pretty weak, at least, it was not as bad as I remembered. Indeed, basically, it was a typical 90’s paranoid thriller and there was actually a really solid cast involved (Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Rachel Weisz, Brian Cox). It was also directed by Andrew Davis who, with ‘The Fugitive’, probably directed the best movie in this genre. The funny thing is that the original theme, the search of a clean cheap source of energy to replace the fossil fuel, became even more important nowadays then it was when this movie was released almost 30 years ago so it did actually have some potential. Unfortunately, the damned thing turned out to be a mess though. Apparently, they started to shoot without a finished script so it felt like they were jumping from one action scene to another without much narrative coherence in between. It was especially obvious with Morgan Freeman’s character and, at the end, I had pretty much no clue on which side the guy was. At least, Freeman is such a fine actor that he is always convincing, even when you give him such poor material. Unfortunately, it was not the case with Keanu Reeves, who was and still maybe a movie star but was never the best actor around, and with his limited skills, he delivered here another one of his rather pathetic wooden performances. To be fair, Rachel Weisz (I actually completely forgot she was involved in this) was not much better. Anyway, to conclude, even if it wasn’t such a total disaster after all, it still felt like a waste of time and you should probably avoid it.