An average movie

After hearing so many bad things about this flick, I wasn’t expecting much but since there was a decent cast, I thought I might as well check it out. Indeed, I thought it would be really terrible but, honestly, it wasn't so bad in my opinion. In fact, I liked it more than Ferrara's "Body Snatchers". Indeed, the directing and the perfomances were not bad at all but, unfortunately, the story was not really interesting or original enough. It is too bad because the whole thing really had some potential. Indeed, there was a pretty cool cast (Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jeffrey Wright). Above all, who would have expected that Oliver Hirschbiegel, the director of the amazing 'Der Untergang' and ‘Das Experiment’, would make such a disappointing English language debut? Basically, it was pretty notorious that the production didn't go very well and eventually the film underwent massive reshooting in 2007. Indeed, the studio didn't liked the cut director Oliver Hirschbiegel delivered and, to change that, the Wachowski brothers were brought in for rewrites and James McTeigue to direct some new scenes. Still, in my opinion, even though it was rather disappointing, it was actually a decent flick and I think it is worth a look.