No Center

Rating: Null/10 (5 August 2005)

We are seeing a new genre be invented and the process is quite thrilling.
No one really knows what the genre will actually be, what it will look like and what few things will characterize it. So dozens of teams take stabs at it. Most will fail so utterly (like this one) that it will tell the next makers and us where the center might be.
It isn't fair to criticize a movie unless you criticize it for what it is intended to be, how it exists. The problem is that F4 and "Hellboy" and even "X-Men" don't have a center yet, don't have a scale.
So we must just judge it on its components: was the girl sexy? were the explosions loud enough? was the villain cool? and so on.
If you find someone doing that, just walk away. But don't necessarily walk away from the movie.
I cannot recommend this movie as one that satisfies. But if you are interested in cinema, you have to watch this and things like this to understand how movies find their grooves. And that helps you understand your own notches for imagination and visualization.
Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.