Soulless

Rating: Null/10 (28 May 2001)

It was Long, unsympathetic and a huge cliche altogether. I could even guess correctly what Evelyn's unborn son would be named : after his dad biological father of course!
To say i was disappointed with the movie is an understatement. The love story is soooo flaky. The only part i like about the romance is when Evelyn's recount how she met Rafe to her fellow nurses while riding to NYC. That's the only thing enjoyable and remotely memorable in the entire movie.
The worst part must be the reunion of the 2 lovers, Evelyn & Rafe. There was no real emotions, it was like, the two saw each other, stand there for a few seconds, then Rafe calmly said to Evelyn, 'Hi i am still alive, come sit over there and we will do some catching up!'
Where's the HUG? where's the raw emotions, the real joy, sadness, sweetness of finding back one's long lost love? maybe its just bad acting.
Wallace is a credible writer, but this time round, he just lost it! maybe he tried to squeeze too many things into one single movie.

And the much-hyped battle sequence, i really didn't feel sorry for the dead. it was just bomb bomb bomb. i wasn't that impressed. Maybe that's what one would call special effects over-exposure. its no more thrilling now that i get to see cutting edge special effects on every single movie, too saturated. it just isn't enough anymore for a movie to depend on special effects.
Ultimately its the story-telling Hollywood. Time to go back to the basics! A good movie like 'As Good As It Gets' or "LA Confidential" needs to cutting edge special effects of any kind. it doesn't need to run 184 minutes of screen time and have thousands of extras!
for those of you who haven't seen it, take a book along and read during the first hour and the last hour, in between the battle.
good luck!