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...dispel the feeling that this movie sounds like a pumped-up, '90s version of Jaws crossed with Jurassic Park. I mean, come on! Killer sharks threaten the lives of scientists on a sinking laboratory? Don't expect anything profound. Still, the supporting appearances of Samuel L. Jackson and Stellan Skarsgard help enhance the film's credibility, and in the area of special effects, audiences won't be disappointed (the film's effects supervisor, Jeff Okun, was responsible for the effects in Sphere and Stargate). It remains to be seen whether all of the special effects and star power can take...
...Richard Weisz (a pseudonym for David Mamet), applies the term to former CIA and KGB agents who are now obliged to work for terrorists and other international thugs, with no ideology to justify their exertions. It sets a bunch of them--including Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Stellan Skarsgard and Natascha McElhone, all enigmatic and excellent--in expensive, nonstop pursuit of an oddly shaped aluminum suitcase...
Williams plays Sean McGuire, a therapist hired by Lambeau, an MIT professor (Skarsgard), to help Will after he is arrested for getting in a brawl. Sean is instructed to tone down the rebellious Will, and make him accept a place in the world of corporate mathematicians. Things get complicated when Sean's hopes for Will to choose his own destiny conflict with Lambeau's ambitious goals (while Will watches gleefully as people fight over him). Will dismisses Lambeau and initially tries to hold out on McGuire. And though he embarks on a relationship with Skylar (Minnie Driver), a beautiful, wealthy...