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.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Feb 12, 2007

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 22, 2002

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 17, 2001

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 14, 2001

Somebody get this director Christian Duguay an A-budget so he'll shut up and go away.

| Jan 1, 2000

The Art of War keeps trying to distract us from the wispy inanity of what's going on by blowing something up every time we pause to reflect or wonder.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The film is a too-loud, poorly directed and seriously overedited addition to the tired genre of double-crossing international conspiracy movies.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

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.

| Jan 1, 2000

The Art of War makes no sense at all.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000

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.

| Jan 1, 2000

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.

| Jan 1, 2000

The Art of War keeps us reasonably entertained, if not guessing.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000

[Snipes] and his stunt double are chained to inexplicable action sequences that probably make more sense as something you'd encounter at a PlayStation.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Quickly falls into B-picture visual cliche, accompanied by leaden dialogue, as it simplifies its ambitious story for the sake of too many shootouts and overblown chases.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Duguay's grotesque excess of visual and aural noise squelches thought.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Ludicrous, impenetrable and headache-inducing: the newest Wesley Snipes film, The Art of War, is all that and more.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

A disgustingly violent morass of high-tech beatings and killings.

| Jan 1, 2000

Gun battles, explosions, car chases, running races ad infinitum. Also lots of breaking glass. All this punctuated by thunderous music and sometimes thunder itself.

| Jan 1, 2000