I remembered this as an annoying, obnoxious car chase film with little charm. But this revisitation, forced upon me by my family as well as an additional family that moved into our house recently and are huge fans of this film (mostly because they have great interest in cars), made me reconsider it, and I don't know what it was, but it came off this time as the Ocean's Eleven of car movies. Granted the fact that its a car movie does drop it a full star, but it's nonetheless better than I remembered.
Of course the plot is lacking, it's got a ridiculous murphy's law element to it, and the cops in the film don't take near as many advantages as are granted to them, and some that they do take aren't even seemingly possible. Plus I don't see why the two brothers didn't just get out of town right at the start as they had no surveillance on them at all other than the cops who would have been glad for them to get out of town...
Basically the plot sucks. But its still a fun ride, with a thrilling second half which is essentially made up of a giant heist. Angelina Jolie is slightly more charming than her annoying self, and the cast is superb, and Nicolas Cage is allowed a few of his totally weird moments, which he must be allowed as Phillip Seymour Hoffman always had to have his freak outs in his films.
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