Visually, atmospherically, the 2004 classic is a split sword. This means that the visual nature, of the movie lends to either perception of its quality. Is the movie good, is it bad?
In my opinion, the movie is brilliant, for a subtext of philosophy that the movie possesses due to the nature of the casting.
Sanaa Lathan, of course, is like a Denzel Washington awareness, or like a Robert Redford awareness; this can intimidate the viewer, depending of course on the viewer's sociology background and personality matrix, and so, there's that framework, in turn supporting the ideology of the split sword