![]() The film's primary flaw is its principal character's lack of )R magnetism in this role. Still, with foreign rights, ancillary sales and cable, plus creative structuring of the debt (sticking the studio's previous owners, the Japanese electronics firm Matsushita, with the loss), Universal will emerge bloody but unbowed. It appears headed toward an $80-odd million domestic take - far from its upfront cost of nearly $200 million. ![]() The film brought down a less than boffo but less than embarrassing $21.3 million in its first weekend, after months and months of hype, counter-hype, rumor, innuendo and press sniping. And what do you get? A middling action picture with a few good scenes and quite a few bad ones. ![]() The most expensive picture in history and one of the most storied - the budget went ballistic, the set sunk, the director quit in the editing process, there never was a final script, the star completed the editing and then publicly bad-mouthed the director he had originally insisted upon, who had once been his best friend - is finally upon us. ![]()
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