Producer Jerry Bruckheimer damn near atones for the inanities of
Armageddon by turning out this dynamite thriller about the abuses of surveillance technology. To keep us glued to a complex, often maddeningly implausible plot, he borrows a trick from the master, Alfred Hitchcock, who knew you had to cast a star -- say, Jimmy Stewart (
The Man Who Knew Too Much) or Cary Grant (
North By Northwest) -- whom an audience would follow anywhere. Bruckheimer and director Tony Scott have wisely set their…
