Val Kilmer

The fatuousness of that title sums up Schumacher's approach. The director allows his few scrupulous choices to be overwhelmed by garish vaudeville.

"At the end of the day, building a better mousetrap is just mechanics." Within that comment is the philosophy of director Renny Harlin...you'd best lower your expectations.

If you can surrender to the film's crazy convictions, it's a popcorn-munching wild ride worth taking.

A movie for adolescents, and adults who willfully decide not to know better for a couple of hours.

A hall of fame guy's movie...[with] a macho '90s ensemble eclipsed only by Glengarry Glen Ross...the monologues—oh, the monologues!

A stealth epic, framing an urban jungle and making its own kind of contemporary history by pairing acting giants Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in what has arguably become the preeminent cops-and-robbers movie.

Sports pretty much everything one would want in a Western, and though it's not always eminently artful, it is rarely anything less than entertaining.