This film is textbook Tom Clancy. He is the master of the funnel effect. He starts by cross-cutting around a huge circle worldwide. He tells us the general endpoint fairly early and adds a ticking clock. The cross-cutting spirals tighter and tighter, in both space and time, with all t

I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that a movie that set out to copy The Titanic should be so embarrassing. I felt like the guy in Clockwork Orange who had to watch violence and pornography with his eyes pried open. The structural gimmick of the love triangle between the boyhood