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#10 in my Ranking of John McTiernan films.

I was with this movie for maybe two-thirds of it. I wasnt quite loving it, but I was going along with the twisting narrative and contradictory stories well enough. It was a lesser version of Kurosawas Rashomon, but it worked. And then it took the twists into overdrive and I just lost it. James Vanderbilt, the screenwriter, has said that he wanted to make a movie where no one would guess the killer in the first ten minutes. Well, he succeeded because...