Will Smith goes mano-a-mano with his younger self in director Ang Lee’s exhilarating action spectacle.
By Adam Nayman
Ang Lee takes American exceptionalism to task in this hyper-real spectacle.
Ang Lee’s dazzling CG dreamworld basks in the danger of sea-bound solitude, but it all cloaks a big, banal religious metaphor.
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