Disappointing at best

Rating: 5/10 (12 February 2005)

I was really looking forward to seeing this film, but found I couldn't suspend my disbelief, even for a moment. Any time you see a big action shooting scene in a film, where thousands of shots are dispensed without even a hint of the need to re-load, and no explanation of how this could be, you can assume a lot of other things are not going to add up either. It's supposed to be set in 2035, but the scenario in this film would be hard to believe if it were 200 years from now.
I think the main problem for me was that the film had the feeling of a comic book story, but it wasn't presented that way in the trailers. If this were Batman, I'd enter with a different state of mind and maybe this thing wouldn't have seemed so ridiculous.
The effects were decent, although there were some matte shots that were way too easy to spot. But to make matters worse, the dialogue was just plain awful. It felt like the entire film was ad-libbed. And when you add bad dialogue to a weak story, well, this is what you get.
I gave this film a 5, which is pretty low considering my expectations. But there was some entertainment value in the special effects and soundtrack that has a lot of low-end punch. If you have nothing better to see, go ahead, but don't say you weren't warned.