Flat

Rating: Null/10 (11 June 2001)

I thought I was this movie's target audience. I'm a white male aged from 18 to 25. It was raining and I wanted to see some cheesy love story with loads of big explosions. I am Jack's need for Hollywood. Far from being just cheesy, the love angle was a flat afterthought. Insert-heartbreak-here. Lovable, honest but dumb pilot falls for caring, sassy nurse. If that didn't pull the heart strings of every maternally crazed woman in the audience, then this film is a poorly acted, badly scripted turd. It didn't. Anyway, not to worry. There's still 150 Million $'s worth of magic to see. Unfortunately, after 30 minutes of explosions, even ILM becomes boring. No pacing. No tension. No edge-of-seat action. Just explosion after explosion after explosion. It's like watching a 2 hour special on 'When bombs go wrong' of Fox. And just when I thought it was over, another hour and a half of the film appeared. Bugger.
Not worth the 150 million they spent. Not even worth the 12 francs I paid.