One of the worst EVER

Rating: 1/10 (28 February 2000)

I saw this movie thinking it was going to be either really bad or really good. Both would have been entertaining. But it is just plain bad, and boring. I saw this movie at the 8:00 showing, and fell asleep. The first half was sooooo boring. I caught just enough of it to catch the plot. Then stayed awake for the second half, which made me want to leave the theater.

The special effects were decent, but nothing really spectacular. I could probably do that with several million dollars and a computer. The coolest parts of the film was when you see through Diesel's eyes, and the monsters' eyes. Although I have done the special effect of the monsters' vision with Paint Shop Pro, I have not seen it on the movie screen. In fact, it looked like they just used PSP to get all of their visual effects.

The rest of the movie was shoddy. The one-liners were not that great (sometimes movies have some real winners, which this movie did not have), the plot sucked, the sub-plots were pretentious, and the story has been done. It could have been such a cool movie if it had better directing, writing, editing, cinematography, visuals, etc. In fact, I would not wish this movie on my worst enemy (although I could stomach forcing them to watch Deep Impact or Kazaam or Leonard Part 6 until they died) simply because it was so painful. I kept hoping for a good ending, but it never came.

Also, why were the day time visuals so washed out? Was it just to create a contrast to the dark? It was so pointless. At least in Three Kings, the visuals were meant to look like a Xerox copy because of the news prints, and such. This did not have a reason to look like that except it was a bad Xerox copy of other better movies. Vin Diesal had potential in his role, but it was never reached. Also, I should have drank some of the alcohol that they burned for fuel to get through this movie. Snore!----------------------------1/10