Not that good

Rating: 3/10 (19 April 2010)

Having not seen the original, as I was only a few years old when it came out, I still knew the general idea of the movie but I was unable to follow the movie often. I know the critics complained about the CGI in the movie but my complaint about this movie is the action scenes. Everything and everybody is moving so fast that everything is a blur. I've walked out of seeing a bad movie but still enjoyed my time but not here. It seems crazy to have a movie where you can't follow the movie not because of the storyline but because of the speed. To show how hard it is: my favourite character in the movie is the djinn and he/she/it doesn't speak English!!! The acting is not great and in some instances is bad, you generally don't care about the characters and pretty much everyone dies except for the ones you expect. I walked out of the movie and my thoughts were on playing a computer game and being thankful that because of my wife's discount card it cost only 25(chinese dollars) where everyone else in there mostly had to fork out 130(chinese dollars). That's not a good sign for a movie.