poor, very poor despite some pretty sweet SFX

Rating: 5/10 (7 July 2002)

I'm a big fan of the sci-fi genre but this film is just woefully poor. To give it credit, it started out positively but apart from some sweet special effects it just diminished into so much half chewed fish. It was a movie that was made for a "B-Rate" actor not the likes of Lawrence Fishburne. Even Morpheous himself looked un-at-ease with his corageous captain role. To be honest, the gore was just tooooooo graphic. I can tolerate gore in fits and spurts so to speak but it was just too graphic. For me, hanging someone horizontally on meat hooks and then slicing their inerds out while they're still alive is just too much. And to think.....the great Michael Kamen of Metallica did the music to it!