Hmmm....Mr Smith meets Bill and Ted...

Rating: Null/10 (22 September 2000)

This one got a whole lotta hype and folks everywheres have gone Kookoo over it, but after seeing it...all I have to say is: So What?
You have flick that is basically Tron meets Terminator, with a strong dose of Bruce Lee tossed in. Add in the John Woo type choreography and flowing robes bits, and ya got it.
Excellent effects, good acting; fine way of pushing our buttons of paranoia about machines, technology, the future, our existence, and Who is Really Behind the Curtain?
But I sat through and just kinda shrugged. It isn't anything that I haven't seen before in other places. And Try as I might, and actually kinda Liking Keanu...you Still have to remember, the lead guy's pet phrase claim to fame is?: Whoa...Kinda hard on the credibility, you know?
And frankly have gotten sick of the oodles and oodles of post Apocalypic fiction that has been flung our way past 30 years or so. This one spins it out in a more creative way, but its still the same old, same old.
So--did I like it?
Sure!
Did I think it was the best flick of '99 or whatever?
Nahhhh!! Gimme the Mummy!!
*** outta ****, good fun and etc just don't go expecting to see Greatness.