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Identifying himself as Alexei Galitin of the GRU (Russian military intelligence service), the bearded captive said that the explosions last September in Moscow and Volgodonsk that killed nearly 300 people had been carried out by the GRU in collaboration with the FSB (the Russian security service).
The plot (Smith is wrongfully targeted by rogue National Security Agency operatives) stretches credibility in places, but overall the film is said to be "enormously entertaining" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). Pluses: It's full of cool technology and big explosions, and there's so much creepy surveillance that it feels "like Kafka on steroids" (Peter Rainer, New York ). (Visit the official site.)
The actors are unable to compensate for one-dimensional characters, trite dialogue, and an overabundance of explosions.
Badly planned, poorly made, and apt to burst into flames--no, not prime-time TV (although I, for one, would be more likely to watch Ally McBeal if the law firm were more frequently devastated by fatal explosions, or the nightly news if furious grease fires now and then ravaged Peter Jennings' hair).
The Pakistanis claim to have set off five explosions, although USA Today and WP reports that the U.S. confirmed only one.