Entertaining With Awesome Special Effects, However A Bit Confusing With A Muddled Story

Rating: 7/10 (28 April 2005)

This is an entertaining film with awesome special effects, however it's a bit confusing with a muddled story. It also starts off rather slowly, until the 2nd half. It's got lots of creepy images, and all the characters were cool, however they could have been a lot more developed,and the ending kind of sucked, still the effects were jaw dropping, and it was rather creepy at times. It was kinda disturbing at times and Sam Neil going crazy near the end was great, plus the makeup on him was fabulous. Overall it's well worth a watch, but it could have been better story and scripting wise. The Direction is good. Paul W.S. Anderson does a good job here, with some amazing shots, great use of colors (especially green and blue),great set pieces, creating creepy mood, and keeping the film, at a mostly good pace. There is quite a bit of blood and gore. We get a severed hand,TONS and TONS of blood,hollowed out eye sockets,lot of gory corpses,shattering corpse,bashed open leg,blood vomiting,hollowed out corpse, with all of it's organs on a table,extremely gory flashes,gory scalpel action,guts are pulled out of someone's mouth,very graphic fall victim,slit wrists, and more. yep plenty here. The Acting is very good. Sam Neil is EXCELLENT here, he is extremely creepy, unpredictable,and is a wonderful actor, he excels at roles like this!. Laurence Fishburne is very good here, however his character wasn't developed that well, and it took me a while to warm up to him he was still great, and is also a wonderful actor. Kathleen Quinlan is cute, and does fine with what she has to do, and was pretty likable. Richard T. Jones is hilarious as the comic relief. Rest do fine. Overall well worth a watch! *** out of 5