Having finished the biggest job of his career (three years of his life and and an eightfigure pay-off), the genius is puzzled to discover gunwielding assassins at every turn. A rubbish script ("The campus is huge! There are hundreds of guards!"), terrible acting from all concerned - including, I regret to say, Uma Thurman - and Woo's action histrionics uneasily confined to science lab interiors, all conspire to produce a movie of utter redundancy.
