![]() ![]() At the time of typing this it has a 6.1 rating on IMDb which shows that most here think it is at least better than average. too which always makes you think they were people involved with the movie but then again maybe people rate them in on their expectations of the movie compared to what they actually get, rather than rating in comparison to other movies? It had a budget of $60 million and box office was around $76 million most likely way down on what they though it would be but not exactly a big flop, yeah there was probably millions spent on promoting but they probably made up for that and more with DVD and BR sales and rentals, and looking through various sites, the critics reviews seem to be around average or just below and cinema goers reviews seem to be average to above average. (So it was as good as The Godfather, Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction etc?). makes it one of the worst movies ever made (worse than Battlefield Earth, or Killing Spree? lol), but there are a lot of 10 star ratings. It feels like much of the hate must be from people trying to just buck the trend or with some emotional spur of the moment thing going on lol. I'm not going to give lots of details about what happened in the movie but just wanted to comment about what a lot of other people had said about it. ![]()
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