What a horrible script. Full of trite action, cliched dialogue, and useless filler. Thank God this was not followed in the actual movie. Rich (6 out of 10 )
A well written script. However the story is rather weak and predictable, slightly improved upon in the movie but not by much.Petrovski (6 out of 10 )
The script is quite weak. The movie was half decent, more glare than actual drama. De Niro and Reno both brought a good performance. The ending was predictable and Dietra (Irish girl) has the worst accent.frood (8 out of 10 )
The script was non-traditional. Every character had a backstory that was not told in the film, with Mamet leaving that up to the imagination. It was beautiful in its simplicity, and very Japanese in that much was done without blatantly telling you. Deirdre's accent was actually authenticl- Natascha McElhone's mother was Irish.gabby (1 out of 10 )
I am actually Irish myself and I can assure you that Deirdre's accent was terrible.chris (5 out of 10 )
I think it's interesting. Zeik picked a great central conceit- the idea of modern Ronin- but his script is a low brow schlocky thriller, mainstream fare, cliched dialogue and paper-thin characters. My guess is Frankenheimer came on-board and saw that the concept suited a more subtle, realist, measured approach, and then brough Mamet on to rewrite it. The version of the script on show here is certainly a pretty poor Shane Black-esque piece of popcorn entertainment (perhaps explaining why Zeik has had such little work since), but it's not hard to see why people thought it could be better than that. Structurally the film which made it to cinemas I find very interesting- for the first 40 minutes or so it goes like this: SET PIECE (Sam entering the bar), a scene or two of plot and character, SET PIECE (the ambush in the tunnel), a scene or two of plot and character, SET PIECE (Sam and Deirdre staking out the hotel), a scene or two of plot and character, etc.
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