Emperor, naked, again....can somebody please put some clothes on that man?

Rating: 1/10 (15 February 2007)

The Childeating Creature with eyes in his palms stands up from the table in readily pursuit of young human flesh. The little girl notices nothing. Including the paralysed, the entire movie-crowd gets up from their seats and simultaneously shout: "LOOK OUT LITTLE GIRL, BEHIND YOU!!!"
This lame viewer-involvement trick which even Disney has not dared to use in their films in the last 30 years wasn't just the single over-fried potato. It was the accurate typifier for the whole of the movie I was watching. A flat, pointless story with cardboard cutouts as characters which would not have been entertaining even if they had skipped the gore and wardrama and had made it soly a fantasy movie for children.
But no matter, there are two movies for the price of one to be seen. The second one being a war-drama! oh goody! Alas, even the reruns of North and South from back in the days are more entertaining wardrama-wise. Then maybe the blend of the two would ultimately make it all worth it? ....What blend?? They abruptly amputated the fantasy story as if it was a rotting limb, even though it was the best thing this movie had going for it...
Thanks to the massive rave reviews and appreciation by a devastating number of people we can look forward to another couple of years of vacuous, bland foreign films which will be labeled masterpieces, in some form of eyecandy-wrapper for handy usage in trailers and posters.