Terrible

Rating: 4/10 (10 October 2000)

I just saw this film last night and it is SO bad in SO many ways. It takes the phrase "suspension of disbelief" to an entirely new level.
The plot is 3rd grade gibberish. None of the actors save Billy Bob Thornton create characters that are worth rooting for, or memorable. It was damn near impossible to care about what happened to any of these people, as most of them were stereotype "summer movie" characters. The relationship between Bruce Willis' tough-guy father and Liv Tyler's stubborn daughter was improbably written and poorly acted. I had a hard time believing that people like those two could even exist, let alone have a relationship like they did.
the special effects were good, there were a number of memorable CGI scenes but the editing for this movie was extremely annoying, I TOTALLY agree with the poster who said there are no scenes longer than 3 seconds.
I was actually prepared to give this movie a 6 or 7, until the utterly contrived and vomit-inducing ending, which I won't even bother to spoil, anyone who loses 2 and a half hours of their life watching this pile of c**p deserves to see the ending.
By the way I usually like Bruce Willis in almost anything, but his performance in this film is one of the most 1-dimensional, flatly uninspired I've ever seen. Willis seemed to be taking lessons straight from the John Wayne school of acting, delivering even impassioned speeches in a wooden monotone.