Once is enough.

Rating: Null/10 (23 May 2002)

This is one of those great special effects movies with a gorgeous hero and terrific villains, action and fights and sound effects to stun you, but seeing it once is enough.
If you can ignore the crashes as the laws of physics are broken left and right, you can enjoy the fight scenes. Would be nice if, someday, an action movie showed you the entire fight, didn't edit all over the place. These actors and performers work very hard to achieve some grace and proficiency in the martial arts; I'd like to watch them doing some. But I hate it when a character that died already is resurrected for a sequel.

My favorite character actor, Ron Perlman, was a neat surprise as I hadn't known he would be in the movie. Once a larger than life hero himself, he must (as all character actors do) now play villains. But Perlman playing a villain is better than not having Perlman to watch at all. Rock on, Vincent.