michiel-b Those of us who are familiar with the work of (very talented) director Dick Maas, will notice that this movie is 'Amsterdamned', 'De Lift' and 'Flodder' re-re-revisited. Obviously the great man had a lack of original ideas at the time, as lots of scenes (and sounds!) appear as a deja vu. The movie is also a strange combination of amazingly over-the-top, yet realistic action scenes (although the location sequence is odd, the car chase is a masterpiece) and annoying cardboard moments, of which the scene on the roof of the hotel reminded me of the old Batman series on TV. A reasonably enjoyable film though (or should I say parody?), with only one big let-down. I mean: if you have Jennifer Tilly on board, being the actress with the best body in the business, well SHOW that body then!

youngian-1 In the first 20 minutes of this flick I began to wonder if there was an Amsterdam in the U.S. Not one major or minor role in this movie had a Dutch accent. This distracted me from enjoying an otherwise interesting story set in one of Europe's oldest cities. Distraction then led to befuddlement. The Script writer seemed fixated on Amsterdam's reputation as a purveyor of child porn and pedophilia. There was more than a couple of instants were characters made reference to their own awful proclivity.Add to that gruesome and astonishingly gratuitous scenes of violence which were oddly incongruous (ie. the ambulance wheel rolling over a para-medic's head mashing it like an over-ripe pumpkin.)But most of all. I could not believe Oscar-winner, William Hurt or even Jennifer Tilly and Dennis Leary could associate themselves with this strange and uneven film.

pottich I don't know what people wanted to do here, I don't now either if this was a comedy, thriller or what...A 10 years old girl escaping from a "pro-murderer", giving him some pain, driving cars, kicking faces, jumping from the roof of a 10 floor hotel, jumping from elevators... Are we stupid or Amsterdam's police department are more stupid than us? Home Alone was so much better than this and Arnold Schwarzeneger would like to fight just like this 10 years old lady. This is the worse movie ever...Something good about this movie??? I don't think so...1 out of 10 (overrated)

Flint-13 I'd had this in the DVD player 5 minutes and realized I'd hired it before. Oddly, I couldn't recall how it finished. Twenty minutes in and I knew why I didn't know how it finished--I'd not been able to sit through it all before, so this time I made a sandwich and sat down to suffer it in its entirety.I was going to blame the director for messing up a good script, but then I realized that it was a writer/director auteur type thing. Some work well, others are catastrophically bad. The plot was sort of OK, the execution awful and the pathetic attempts at humour were totally out of context in such a movie. So was the gratuitous violence--sort of like a Year-11 schoolboy story.As far as acting goes, Francesca Brown aquitted herself quite well; the rest were average to bad. Maybe they just needed the money.Most unbelieveable scene (and there were many): The model aircraft posing as a real plane in the opening scene.Someday I'll be smart enough to make a list of forgettable movies that I must not hire when I go to the video store. I think I'll start that list tonight.