Turkey

Rating: Null/10 (16 February 2003)

I just finished watching this on DVD. Did people really pay to see this rubbish at the cinema? I haven't been this bored with a movie since I saw Dragonfly. Most boring (in fact it eventually became laughable) were the drawn out scenes where the actors were supposed to react to things happening off screen. Someone should have referred them, prior to production, to Sergio Leonie's brilliant The Good the Bad and the Ugly for lessons in doing this. I started to think that perhaps the surprise ending was going to be that our family were the aliens, due to their unhumanlike reactions and wooden performances. Note that I haven't really commented on the plot. This is because what plot there was would have easily fitted into one of Spielberg's old Amazing Tales episodes (and still it would have been boring). Oh well! My dog enjoyed it. He had a great time trying to find the dogs inside the surround sound speakers!