impressed, but cheated

Rating: 2/10 (27 May 1999)

Walking out of this movie, I felt giddy and excited. It was a fun flick with impressive special effects that didn't seem entirely tacked on.
But the more I thought about it, the more I felt cheated and manipulated. The plot was fairly decent... for the first half of the film. Then it pulls out and lets the special effects take over. I know the purpose of film is to manipulate emotions, but being stroked into thinking a movie is great because it looked pretty is just insulting.
I recommend seeing it at least once, especially on a big screen, but not because it's the great sci-fi film everyone's touting it to be--because it's a good two hours of mindless entertainment with some decent loud music and entrancing special effects.