A fun movie, but not especially memorable. It's a little ridiculous, and not in a way that is entirely endearing. I have this feeling that it was probably much stronger script at first, and that it got diluted into something more complicated by the time it was shot. Some of the subplots seem a little more forced, like his competitive relationship with the black guy.
What stood out to me was the villain. He seemed more scary to me than a movie of this caliber should have. I think I was expecting a level of evilness that was probably more akin to the "evil dean" in a college movie. This seemed more like a toned down version of Philip Seymour Hoffman's Mission: Impossible 3 villain.
And the script created a very strange, uneven balance between the hero and the villain. The hero only has the means of thwarting the villain, but not keeping himself safe from retribution. This gives the whole movie a tension that isn't very pleasant. It gets resolved neatly, but it adds to the dark touch that this movie uses, which doesn't feel right for a movie that feels like a live-action cartoon.
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