The world's most expensive music video and little else.

Rating: 1/10 (29 January 2012)

For anyone familiar with Zack Snyder, this movie is no surprise. He earned the right to make this by turning an old graphic novel, 300, into a money making machine and filming the once impossible to film Watchmen. Now, here he is with his own original concept and it's one for the ages. While the overall concept, in theory, isn't a terrible one, it's the execution that drives me nuts as it's filled with every imaginable cliché and the whole film is, in essence, one long music video. In between the much touted fantasy sequences, we have a cast of heavily made up, overly polished young women moping around a sanitarium without much to do or say although they would look more at home in a brothel. Style over anything resembling substance is the order of the day here. The fantasy sequences play in a way that kept making me think "this is what a 12 year old with $80 million would make" Giant samurai with Gatling guns, fire breathing dragons and slow-mo closeups of girls jumping with guns and swords. All bombast flash and no heart is what best sums up these scenes and this movie.