Fantasy, obviously

Rating: 3/10 (8 January 2005)

I thought this would be a martial arts movie with adventures and such. What I got was unrealistic fighting scenes with people flying about. Now, I normally don't have a problem to suspend my disbelief, and accept things like that in a movie or TV series. When I saw Mists of Avalon, I accepted that there was some magic in it, like when the priestess could control the fog and such, and when I watch the X-Files, I accept all the ghosts and supernatural stuff, likewise when I watch Buffy. So how come I had such a hard time accepting the flying and levitating in this movie? I think there are two reasons: 1) I thought it would be a movie set in this universe without altering the laws of physics too much, and 2) It was sometimes all too obvious that they used wires. After a while, the levitating was simply so much that I did accept it as some form of magic, otherwise I couldn't have kept watching it. But, even after deciding this, I still thought the movie was simply too long and boring. I'm sorry, but that became the biggest problem for me after a while.