It was so loud, it kept waking me up!

Rating: Null/10 (29 May 2003)

I'd give it three thumbs down, if I had three thumbs. The special effects were - well, special. I hate to borrow someone else's analogy, but this was like a freakin big video game. Just a bunch of animated characters running and flying and fighting. Who cares? These characters have no personalities, they don't get hurt, they're not permanently killed - there's no risk, and no stakes. The end of humanity. Yawn. Buffy did it for seven years, and always did it better than this. Always. Who told Weaving and Fishburne to do that pompous King Lear thing through the whole film? Who thought an eternal diatribe by some suit was just the thing to set up the climax of the film? What was the point of the big random kung fu fight with the Asian guy??? Did they think they needed to tip their cinematic cap to Inspector Clouseau movies? This one is just insulting. It's not even fun enough to be worthwhile - where is everyone's sense of humor?? This is over-the-top stuff and they should be having fun with it. "Clones" had the same problem, but somehow didn't honk me off like this one did. The worst. And that's without even mentioning the music "under" the end credits.