New Yorkers should have lots of fun pointing out absurdities in the film (Midtown is South Ferry? The Brooklyn Fed? Why are the trains running passed a hostage car? Coney Island on the 6 line?) I know I did, to the point that I couldn’t suspend my disbelief. (Especially the cop cars pounding through the city with millions in the back and generally wreaking havoc. There would have been a lot more honking to get past stopped traffic, I think.)

By and large, the movie as a movie is receiving mixed reviews. But as I said, for a summer action movie, reviewers, such as those in The Times, The Journal, The LA Times and more, say it’s enjoyable and not terrible.

Scott’s work is being praised as a good summer action movie with a solid lead cast

Which reviews have you read? The ones I’ve read give very little praise. The Chicago Tribune gives the movie 2.5 stars, comparing it negatively with the original. The Washington Post says,

If the film stayed there — if it focused on the psychology of an ordinary guy with a blot on his record and a crazy man who sees his own darkness in everyone he meets — it might be a good film. But this is a Tony Scott film, which means it is animated by a restless, absurd need for excess, for energy and speed and rapid, manic, dizzying camera work. And it has the usual Tony Scott tics, the misogyny and male solipsism. Women are reduced to bit players, passive, needy intrusions on the world of male jousting, annoying chicks who demand professions of love even as the world is going up in smoke.