Grand Jury Investigation

Rating: Null/10 (7 December 2007)

I think the writers of this movie should be brought up in front of the Grand Jury, really. It stuns me that a think tank of industry professionals can come up with this sort of crap. They just had to write a solid and simple plot line, keep the movie to under two hours, then let the great cast and special effects have some fun. To screw it up as badly as this, well that really must have taken some effort. How can you walk in to the production phase of a hundred million dollar movie with that script in your back pocket? With that amount of money on the table why doesn't somebody say "i'm sorry but that script just isn't good enough, in fact its awful, do it again." It happens in business every day with budgets a thousand times smaller than this. Then during production why doesn't somebody say to Yun-fat chow "I respect that you are an amazing actor and have been the backbone of the HongKong film industry for over 20 years but right now we can't understand a bloody word you're saying". Really how can you shoot a movie on this scale and not point out to one of your actors than his entire dialogue is incomprehensible. The final thing is that this film really saddens me. I grew up with StarWars and Indiana Jones, this could have been up there, could have been a contender, what a bloody waste of a beautiful thing.