Mediocre

Rating: 4/10 (16 December 2004)

I ran away after a half of an hour of that flatulent nonsense. Well, the battle scenes are filmed rather well and technologically advanced, blood is red, brains are soft and pink and guts wriggle. Very nice, indeed.
But what about a plot which consists of clichés worn out to rags (is it a postmodern joke - to fill the film with nothing but implicit quotes from mediocre blockbusters? I doubt), a work - lack of it - of a stylist (glossy soldiers with cute haircut after a week of hunger and battle) and especially acting? The characters are soulless puppets, no, I'm wrong, they are dumb flat sketches, invented by a mass culture bungler, a sneer on a human being played by the actors who might think that an amount of grimaces shows inner feeling of a person. I just could not bear this any longer.
I have to admit that I have seen some of Hollywood flickers this year. And none of them was such a scrap!