Decide to avoid this mess the day before!

Rating: Null/10 (13 December 2004)

It is difficult to avoid clichés when reviewing this mess, but they do sum things up. No suspense, cardboard characters, ludicrous science and nauseating political homilies. As usual the special effects are all, and the film-makers show scant regard for audiences by believing that they won't see beyond the technical wizardry to the dross beneath. It is cynical cinema. Maybe aimed solely at the teen to 25 generation but surely they - and any other film-goer - deserves not to have their intelligence insulted in such a way. With all the obscene expenditure on such a product was it not beyond the wit of someone to engage a decent scriptwriter? Someone who could have injected a little reality and genuine emotion?