An average movie

Before going into his motion-capture adventure which would last more than 5 years, resulting in 3 movies, all of them with some mitigated results, Robert Zemeckis made this thriller. Basically, it is pretty straight-forward affair which was sometimes compared to Hitchcok's work, even though it never reached that level. Apparently, he filmed this while production on 'Cast Away' was shut down. Indeed, Tom Hanks needed to lose some weight for his character. Anyway, I thought it was a pretty good flick with some solid directing. Indeed, Zemeckis managed to create a nice tensed mood. First of all, back in those days, Michelle Pfeiffer was a major A list actress and provided a solid performance. Concerning Harrison Ford, I wasn't completely convinced. I mean, it was really neat to see him in a thriller like this which was something really different than his usual fair and his character was also really interesting and completely different than his typical heroes. Unfortunately, it was pretty obvious that there was something fishy about this guy. That was the main issue with this movie. Indeed, it is all mood and no substance whatsoever and, as a result, even though the whole thing was rather entertaining, it was also highly predictable and not really interesting. Still, it remains a solid thriller and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

6/10