A hotshot Washington criminal lawyer becomes the target of a rogue security executive videotaped in the act of murdering a congressman when the incriminating tape is surreptitiously slipped into his shopping bag by the videographer, who is fleeing the executive's assassins.
What do you say about a movie that sends you home in a frenzy to search for bugs? In the new age of Big Brother, that's entertainment.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
11 May 2001
rotten:
From there, with the mystery entirely gone and the thrills fading fast, the rest is pretty much a two-hour chase sequence, culminating in a hilariously maladroit shoot-out.
– Rick Groen,
Globe and Mail,
19 Mar 2002
rotten:
Hard to sit through.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
18 Jun 2002
rotten:
Since Scott could not make this film snap, crackle or pop faster or more loudly, you might find the evening a bit light.
– Jeff Millar,
Houston Chronicle,
21 Jul 2005
fresh:
[Its] spirited action is balanced by an almost contemplative attitude toward surveillance phobias and the movie cliches they've spawned.