Our Hell Lasts Two Hours And Five Minutes

Rating: 4/10 (6 April 2004)

This film is another in an alarmingly growing number of action films that seem to mistake loud,busy CGI effects with action.I have to admit that the director(Del Toro) has a wonderful sense of visual style(the creatures are imaginatively creepy and menacing)but no sense whatsoever about how to use them as part of a story.The whole enterprise was trite,predictable,cliched,and souless.Did we really need another "tortured,missunderstood,lone wolf" hero?Did his love interest have to be a girl whos channeled Steven King via Drew Barrymore?The fact that Im asking these and a hundred questions just like this tells me that the screenwriter and director(one in the same here)hasnt done his job.Ill wait for X3 and Spiderman2,thank you very much.