Over-Rated - Inspector Clouseau vs. Predator

Rating: 4/10 (15 August 2009)

I went to this movie very eager to like it. Instead I found I was duped like a "minkey". (I know what I said idiot!) First of all I liked this movie better when in came out in 1978 and was called Holocaust. There, in that movie, the characters that play the Warsaw ghetto imprisoned Jewish population didn't have to wear left over Predator costumes. And the Nazi's weren't lead by a bumbling Frenchman with a heavy accent and a mustache. I expected at any point for the lead character to sneak back into one of the ghetto shacks and have to confront Cato.
If I wanted to watch some jerky camera action I could just turn on my local cable high school program and watch them "spray the garden" just as effectively.
When I saw this was a Peter Jackson film - I expected quality, but as I discovered he only produced it. Alas it must have been directed by someone who took pointers from Gollum.
I also thought the alien ship special effects were quite spare. It makes Transformers look like the intellectual 2001 by comparison.
If the heavy handed subject matter (discrmination) were not present (Oh, look it is set in JHB - how ironic!) then I doubt it would get any cred. Do The Right Thing and don't bother with this film.