Another "Millennium Dome Syndrome" film

Rating: 1/10 (22 July 2005)

Spectacularly awful - no amount of Hollywood hype and millions spent in advertising is enough to salvage this film I'm afraid.
In the 1990's some drunk politician espoused the idea of celebrating the Millennium by making an enormous dome on the banks of the River Thames. No-one considered what should be inside it - just that it seemed a great idea. That same drunk individual, I believe, came up with this film.
This empty film goes to show that it is once again, perfectly possible to say "Let's make a super-hero film" then strangle it with a poor story, castrate it with ham-acting and finish it off with talentless direction.
If you're looking for a super-hero film with a plausible story line, escapist fantasy .... then steer clear of this film.
I got increasingly fed up having to force myself to suspend reality to 'get into' the film, but the acting from just about all the cast was SO awful that I was forced back into a cinema seat watching a silver screen wondering why I was watching a somewhat poor, fourth-rate Bollywood production.
I just wish the director had told the actors to learn their lines instead of allowing them to read them from boards off-camera; and at least to make some second-rate attempt at delivering the lines as if they meant them, and not be satisfied with the cast blankly reading their lines to camera.
It was a great film apart from the storyline, the script, the acting, and the directing .... a film in a league with Batman (1989) and The Saint (1997).
The film ended (after a tortuous, mind-numbing two hours) tempting us to believe in a sequel. Please, please no sequel ! Please let this film die the death it so richly deserves.