Pretty good, could have been better

Rating: 9/10 (25 December 1999)

I thought the movie was pretty entertaining, and I didn't really feel the length of the 3 hours until the end. I thought the ending was way too long, rambling and disconnected. I also felt some scenes were too contrived to try to get an audience response. The Percy character was so one-dimensional -- he was made incredibly evil, with no good traits whatsoever. He had the stereotypical "villain" characteristics: merciless, a coward, a suck-up. He was made the easy target character for the audience's contempt. However, the movie was pretty fun to watch, I didn't get bored until the very end. An engaging movie , even if it did try a little too hard.