I really wanted to like this....but *contains spoilers*

Rating: 3/10 (23 October 2004)

I went in to this movie determined to ignore all the negative reviews that I had read because I really wanted to enjoy it, but unfortunately I just came out of the cinema disappointed. Before anyone has a go at the fact i'm expressing a negative opinion, i'm not nitpicking, it just wasn't a very good movie, sometimes it happens guys. It wasn't awful but It could have been so much better, on a plus point i thought the sets were amazing the pyramid was really well done although I think the idea of it being a testing ground could have been exploited a lot more. Also the film was shot well it certainly looked good, my main gripe has to be with the appalling script. My main impression when watching the film was that it felt like big chunks were missing, it just jumped from inane dialogue to lame alien encounter to more inane dialogue. I thought that the characters were non existent, they were cardboard cutouts, there was the token guy with a camera with photographs of his kids designed to make us empathise with him, the Italian dude who was totally unfazed by the death of his friend with the glasses, and who just so happened to be able to translate ancient texts and then as soon as we found out the plot got killed!!!! funny that. The sigourney replacement enough said, and who the hell was the blonde dike with the gun she was just there no explanation of why!!! oh well, and poor old Wayland ahhhhh he just wanted to leave his mark!!!! what twaddle. I just didn't care about any of them. Also I know its a movie and i'm supposed to suspend disbelief, but not one person thought that the fact a massive hole opening up over the pyramid overnight inexplicably was cause for concern????? oh well we will just go down anyway and see who's there!!!! please. I think that Mr Anderson should stick to just directing and should leave the script writing alone because I think that this film had all the elements to be really good, and as I said before I thought the directing wasn't bad, but it was let down by a hollow script and lets face it if the script is crap whats the point? 3 out of 10