CRAP! TOTAL CRAP!

Rating: 1/10 (28 March 2001)

Why? Why do this to yourself? For goodness' sakes avoid this movie. It is painfully long and tedious and the characters seem like they're still in high school. The effects were cheap and the whole movie's budget should have been higher, or its scope smaller. Whatever, this movie was CRAP! Badly executed and CHEAPLY done. Straight to video release at best, although DON'T rent the video, either. The tediously over-worked aimed for a pre-teen demographic script was infantile and pandering and it spoiled any chances of this truly intriguing story from having ANY impact at all! It's a shame, too, cause Annaud's Seven Years in Tibet was a really good story, and a well executed film. Too large of a scope for the budget and a poorly worked (or overworked) script, that's clearly the case here.