another big budget franchise (part 1 probably) that buckles under its own ambitious weight.

Rating: 1/10 (9 May 2010)

This is a fairly open and shut film and your enjoyment of it will depend on what kind of film you like to watch. if for example you are willing to let slip completely shallow characters, poor plot, muddled story-line, bad dialogue and poor writing in general you might want to book yourself a ticket with the hope that at least the action sequences will be well choreographed and shot and that the special effects will be passable. Let me warn you NOW film fans, DO NOT MAKE THAT MISTAKE, do not part with your cash. For If it is the rule that big budget films must at least be visually engaging with good action scenes then this film is the exception to that rule. i will start simply by saying that the action scenes are so poorly shot you won't be able to follow what is happening. Secondly the characters are so poorly realised and explored that you won't care about anything that happens to them. thirdly the plot is so confused and reliant on the dagger device and the sands of time that the film itself gets muddled in the laws of its own fantasy and buckles. the biggest sin of all here is that the whole film for all its bang and all its buck is just BORING, and not sporadically boring but consistently boring and dull. I can understand people liking transformers, a big part of me loves watching robots smash each other, the kid in me loved watching quadritch jump out of the exploding bomber in a mechanised suit of war on avatar.. this film however is just unforgivably boring considering its subject matter, way too ambitious and just buckles under its own weight, the film is like a desperate stand up comic; desperate for approval but dramatically failing in its increased effort. don't waste your time on it.