Warning: CONTAINS NO NUTS BUT DOES CONTAIN SPOILERS.
The action scenes are a bit meh! to poor - but the gentle comedy between Helen Slater and Russell Crowe should have been developed more as that's when the film came alive.
Passable, however only 5 out of 10 because of the out-and-out crap ending. In the penultimate scene Helen Slater has really endeared herself to Russell Crowe, (she gives the kiss of life to Crowe's son), all we needed in the wrap-up finale scene was to see her meeting up with Crowe, or as Crowe walks down the alley with his son, perhaps she could be waiting to greet them, showing that she and Crowe were now an item - but no! Nothing whatsoever - we wus robbed! And Yuji Kobayashihe the Japanese crime boss who had helped Crowe in the end; it looked as if his wounds would be pretty fatal - but again nothing - we never get to find out whether he lived, died, or how Crowe returned the favour, (he shoots the fat Mafia boss to save Crowe's son). What a missed opportunity - - just Crowe and his son walking away to fade - could so easily have been a 7 if more of a rom-com than a rom-CON.
The action scenes are a bit meh! to poor - but the gentle comedy between Helen Slater and Russell Crowe should have been developed more as that's when the film came alive.
Passable, however only 5 out of 10 because of the out-and-out crap ending. In the penultimate scene Helen Slater has really endeared herself to Russell Crowe, (she gives the kiss of life to Crowe's son), all we needed in the wrap-up finale scene was to see her meeting up with Crowe, or as Crowe walks down the alley with his son, perhaps she could be waiting to greet them, showing that she and Crowe were now an item - but no! Nothing whatsoever - we wus robbed! And Yuji Kobayashihe the Japanese crime boss who had helped Crowe in the end; it looked as if his wounds would be pretty fatal - but again nothing - we never get to find out whether he lived, died, or how Crowe returned the favour, (he shoots the fat Mafia boss to save Crowe's son). What a missed opportunity - - just Crowe and his son walking away to fade - could so easily have been a 7 if more of a rom-com than a rom-CON.