The marketing engine strikes again

Rating: 2/10 (14 August 2004)

The world was told it was great. The world believes it is great. What a total waste of film. The only redeeming quality of this film was the well choreographed fight scenes. So, the two points I gave it actually go to the choreographer. There are times graphic images are called for and times they can be artistically portrayed. Art (in my humble opinion) is the practice of expression leaving much to interpretation thereby provoking and inspiring the audience to be involved. This film was not art. It was a lecture. Nothing left to the imagination. Every last detail explicitly laid out to the point of complete boredom. A flat declaration that there is no faith in the interpretive capabilities of the audience. And the places that the audience is left to use their imagination are more in the area of making sense of the huge holes in the film. Only one of which being where we are expected to believe that after 4 years of atrophy in a coma Uma's still capable taking a 300 pound walrus of a man (she killed him by attacking his tongue?) Taking on another man and then wheel-chairing herself outta there? Come on.