Worse than I remembered...

Rating: 3/10 (30 December 2000)

If you've been fortunate enough to never have seen this film, don't read any further as there may be material that could be considered "spoiler".
I recently watched this film again (all three variants) and it was worse than I remember. At best, this film should be considered a "B" movie.
Regardless of the success of his films, James Cameron is ones of the most juvenile and transparent directors working today. If any other director had used "Bad to the Bone" to "illustrate" the "badness" of a character they would have been vilified. If fact, every other director who used "Bad to the Bone" in this manner >before< James Cameron used it were vilified.
The script varies from juvenile to insipid. In cases where the screenwriters (Cameron and Wisher) couldn't figure out how to work in key information within the overall narrative, they bring to whole film to a dead stop several times by having characters reel off flat monologs detailing another characters motivation and history. Yawn.
The only saving grace of this film are the effects work by ILM and other contractors. Oh, and the casting of S. Epatha Merkeson who seems to be the only actor of skill in the film.