This film is just awful. The main problem is Arnolds acting. I really think he wasn't trying. His acting in the terminator, terminator 2 was, granted, not brimming with human emotion, but he was nonetheless acting. And he basically made true lies his funniest film by, again, acting. Maybe it's just hard to take him seriously as a normal family man. But I perceived his acting to be terrible in this film, sometimes to the point of cringing. The story isn't so bad however, although it gets delivered somewhat annoyingly, with flashes of contradictory images. It kept me interested though, the typical bad guys also performed less than oscar worthy, but at least they were more convincing than Arnie.
Another problem was the amount of completely unnecessary scenes. The film took about two hours. Which felt way too long for a shallow action film, a pretty weak action film at that. It's very PG13, not really what made Arnie one of my favorite action stars(I'm thinking predator, commando, terminator, total recall) and there's no humor to balance the lack out. If you're gonna make an action film, be sure to decide if it's gonna be a real one or an action comedy like True Lies, this is neither. Which is ultimately dissapointing. It's too complicated for ten year olds to follow, but it's too weak to be an action film. It tries to be, there's plenty of gunfire, but it just doesn't satisfy. It's a poor choice for any occasion, because it's really not fun. I would suggest any of the other Arnie film I mentioned.