Seemed like a whole lot of nothing

Rating: Null/10 (8 August 2005)

Most action movies seem to move really quickly through the plot in order to focus on the special effects and action. This film was exactly the opposite. The building and transformation of the characters took so much up so much of the plot, that there was very little room for the action scenes. The beginning of the movie was slow, the middle of the movie slow, and the end of the movie was really fast, but still slow. The climax of the movie was horribly short, and afterward you are left with the feeling, "Was that it?" That being said, the special effects did look nice, and the interactions between the characters (especially Johnny and Ben) were sometimes humorous. But it seems like they tried to make a comic book action movie and accidentally made a mistake for a drama. The high points of the film are minimized so that the subtle points (which most action-movie viewers did not come to see) are very-much drawn out. Almost a third of the film could be removed, and it might actually make the film better. Overall it wasn't awful, but it was really that good either.