Low Expectations - Great Entertainment

Rating: 8/10 (28 January 2002)

What is the critics' problem with this picture? It at no time sets itself up to be Ibsen, so they shouldn't be surprised that it does exactly what it promises on the poster - provide a professional, superbly made, three hours of entertainment with absolutely brain-popping special effects! If you want art, go to a gallery. The first moving picture that charged admission was simply a film of a train coming into a station. It made a fortune. The point here is that the movies were never designed to be an art form, they are intrinsically a special effect, an entertainment, and this film delivers that sumptuously. Having seen it, I don't know how they managed to make it for $150,000,000!