It's left to a refreshingly
diverse international cast of consummate professionals — led, once more, by an increasingly disconsolate - looking Tom Hanks — to breathe what conviction they can into this hoary material, but the result still gives the lie to the old industry maxim that great cinema can spring from trash literature.
He's surrounded by
a diverse international cast, not all of whom are given much to do (a half - assed love interest is horrendously underwritten) and the film's clear attempts to appeal to a Chinese audience don't feel as tokenistic as they have often felt in other blockbusters.
Not exact matches
He is also known for writing several crime novels involving grifters, ex cons, and assassins, the latter novels having more
diverse settings, moving from Los Angeles to the UK to the West Indies, each having an
international cast of characters.