Had potential to be great

Rating: 2/10 (14 October 2005)

This film had the potential to be great. Seemingly a budgetary issue, none of the sets or visuals were really breathtaking... and in a movie like this in an age before CGI really took off that could have gone a long way. I mean, it literally looks like some guys just went out in some random forest in Canada or something and started shooting, and the buildings and structures... well... we don't even get to see them really.
It also suffers from a weak first act... it seems hard to follow, dialogue very disjointed from scene to scene.
Lastly, I love his work, but Antonio Banderas is distractingly miscast as an Arab. It just doesn't work... the look or the voice, sorry.