Oh dear, oh dear

Rating: 1/10 (28 August 2002)

What a truly dreadful turkey this is. Time and time again Hollywood serves up its predictably glossy version of dreadful events. Beautiful actors and actresses; history "dumbed down" for the barely literate so as not to get in the way of all those nice explosions. Utterly stereotyped, one dimensional characters; achingly, cringingly cheesy dialogue. The American Dream delivered on a plate with comic book "bad guys" thrown in for effect.
But all that money they spent on it! A proper director could have made ten times the movie on a hundredth of the budget. When will Hollywood realise that movie audiences are not complete idiots?