A disappointing adaptation.

Rating: 4/10 (21 August 2000)

I hadn't heard much about this movie before seeing it so I was hoping it would be a period murder mystery. I was disappointed when the first overtly supernatural content surfaced. After that it became just another monster movie.
The music during some parts of the movie was very annoying -- I kept thinking someone had turned up a stereo in another room of my house.

I found the Ninja-style twirling of the weapons silly. The costume warn by the horseman, who was supposedly a Hessian mercenary, bore no resemblence to any uniform worn by Hessians, mounted or not, during the American Revolution.
Depp's character seemed to vacilate from inept and bumbling one moment to bold and capable the next. There was no character development, he just fluctuated between Indiana Jones and Inspector Clouseau.
The plot was confusing, too. There were too many characters and way to much needless bloodshed.