This film insulted me

Rating: Null/10 (9 August 2000)

This was without doubt one of the worst messes of a film I have seen for a long, long time. I hated all but the first 5 minutes - it took the film that long to alienate itself from me.
Here are the charges I level against it: 1, boring 2, pathetically unbelievable plot 3, deeply homophobic - the villain was "anti-man" and to make the point stronger he was presented effeminately. In one scene we see him pouring lustfully over his sleeping 8-year-old nephew. The fact that he also sought sex with his sister does not remove this charge, this was simply to add to his unnaturalness. 4, appalling computer graphics 5, needlessly gruesome violence that managed to glamorise violence and reduced us to the level of the crowd watching the gladiators in the colloseum. 6, too long 7, the actor playing the villain was entirely unintelligible.
One good point was Russell Crowe, but he should have known better than to get embroiled in this disgrace.