I Really Wanted to Like It But....

Rating: 4/10 (26 December 2018)

Avatar meets The Clone Wars, meets Jurassic Park, meets underwater Godzilla, meets Aquaman... What is happening? Yeah, the CGI was cool, but who can't create cool effects anymore? That's not a standard we're still trying to set. Besides, No matter how good your effects are, they can't make up for rushed and unrelatable character development, bad dialouge, forced humor (which was painfully obvious), and an overbearing/confusing storyline. So much was happening and there were so many strange inconsistencies. What was with the underwater lightning portal that took them to the center of the earth where there were dinosaurs? Overall I left the theater feeling like I had been cheated out of two and a half hours of my life and 20 bucks. If you can ignore the core parts of a movie that gives it substance and meaning than yeah, it was an action packed film with over the top special effects. However, I personally am not so easily besieged by such deceptions.