A recipe for (cinematic) disaster

Rating: 1/10 (1 May 1999)

Take a ludicrous plot, a couple fistfuls of non sequiturs, several big glops of inane impossibilities, a bucketful of overworked cliches, add a heavy dose of pompous self-importance and a maudlin love-interest subplot or two, sprinkle in a smattering of moderately good (for this day and age) special effects, and you get...an overlong (at two and a half hours) waste of time.
I could go on and on about what's wrong with this movie, but I'd be overcome by nausea. If I were teaching a class on modern cinema, though, I think I'd show this film as an example of how *not* to do things (many things...almost everything, in fact).