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Title: A substandard remake
Review: Other than the opening credit sequence and Carter Burwell's score, there is little to recommend this ill-advised effort. Compared to the spare elegance of Fred Zinnemann's original, this film is yet another instance of Hollywood's addiction to overblown crap. It is small wonder that Zinnemann tried to prevent any reference to his movie by this inferior film.Where to begin? Willis's use of a gigantic gun that is remote controlled rather than a weapon that was concealed within a crutch in the original movie. A wildly miscast Jack Black. The testing of a gun that blows up a van sending a gigantic fireball into the sky; how inconspicuous. Willis buying a yacht to cross the longest undefended border in the world. And since when has the FBI had jurisdiction in Russia?It just goes on and on. Watch the opening credits and then shut off the machine.
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