It's truly sad to see someone like Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Junior, who has turned in some absolutely OUTSTANDING performances in a number of films, find himself under what can only be a horrible director. Even a bad script can be made into something worth seeing if there's talented creative director. You can't blame this on Gooding Junior, because we KNOW that man is perfectly capable of stellar performances when he has the right director. And no, you can't simply blame it on him, because no director worth his weight would ALLOW a bad performance out of a talented actor. Sorry, but this is how it works.