A woman's picture, I guess

Rating: 5/10 (21 May 2000)

I was extremely disappointed. The trailer looked great, but the movie was so boring and trite I asked my wife if she wanted to leave 1/2 way through. Apparently, she was having a great time and loved the movie. I thought the plot revolved around punishing patricide, but my wife thought it a sweet story of frustrated love.
For some reason, we saw entirely different movies.
Getting back to the trailer, I hope someday there is a movie that matches the trailer's promise. I was willing to put up with a cardboard plot if the action and computer graphics were spectacular. They were not. The scale was all wrong... not realistic but cartoonish. In many scenes the action had a curious jerkyness, as if there was not enough money to create 30 computer frames per second so 15 had been used. I had hoped for an experience of 'being in Rome during a gladiator fight' but it failed to deliver.