The Art Of War 2000

Critics score:
16 / 100

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Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News: Read more

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Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: With charisma, acting ability and physical prowess to spare, Mr. Snipes is in a league of his own and makes a mediocre movie worth watching simply by stepping in front of the camera. Read more

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Overly plotted and too coincidence-ridden for a story that's basically about nothing, this is a film that almost is not there. Read more

Paul Tatara, CNN.com: A disgustingly violent morass of high-tech beatings and killings. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The audio gambits are so commanding that at times, you forget that they're just about the only thing gripping your attention. Read more

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Houston Chronicle: Christian Duguay has spent way too much time studying frenetic 60-second commercials and Hong Kong martial arts movies to remember how to make a lucid tale. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Ludicrous, impenetrable and headache-inducing: the newest Wesley Snipes film, The Art of War, is all that and more. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The Art of War manages to entertain without being enriching, and, at least in some circles, that's the definition of what a summer film is supposed to accomplish. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: French Canadian director Christian Duguay does not display an original idea in the entire film, but he's a slick synthesist who melds various styles effectively and sustains a mood of deepening paranoia. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: The Art of War makes no sense at all. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Read more

Emanuel Levy, Variety: In this pretentiously titled international thriller, which is sloppily directed, Wesley Snipes plays an American agent who gets involved in the emerging relations between China and the Western world, with a shaky U.N. placed right in the middle. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Duguay's grotesque excess of visual and aural noise squelches thought. Read more

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Somebody get this director Christian Duguay an A-budget so he'll shut up and go away. Read more