This movie is average at best!

Rating: 6/10 (11 April 1999)

This movie starts with an intriguing story. Albeit, not really anything new, I had high hopes for this film to rank highly in my personal movie favorites list. The style of the movie is really the best feature, something one could expect to be repeated in the coming millenium. Lawrence Fishburn's portrayal is well done and somewhat understated. In fact, all the roles are understated. I believe this was purposeful because the Producer was hoping to acheive big box office totals based on the special effects and look of the movie. In other words, they didn't want to detract from the main selling points by bothering with a coherent storyline or anyone actually acting in this movie. I thought it was somewhat bland because of this. Keannu Reeves is just not a very good actor. The plot degenerates suddenly into a love story to save the day. This plot twist actually made me laugh out loud! It just seemed out of place, with no reason to occur. The kung fu aspect of the storyline was also laughable. If he is the one, I don't want to be on the team. In fact I stopped rooting for the "heroes" about half way through the movie. Many areas of this film will be copied for years to come, because there were excellent aspects to the style, however so many things were done wrong that it will "rank" as only average overall in book! See it, but it is no masterpiece!