Like watching your little brother play video games

Rating: 1/10 (23 May 2003)

An opportunity wasted. A good story gone to pot. Too much focus on trying to appease the theoretical needs of gen Y and their videogame mindset. Which came first - the movie or the video game? During several long (and overwhelmingly dull) "action" scenes I felt like I was looking over someone's shoulder in a video arcade. Boring with a capital B! The movie redeemed itself somewhat towards the end when they actually got on with the story but lots of it was painful to watch nonetheless. Several times I caught myself thinking (a) am I so out of touch with today's pop culture that I'm the only one who doesn't like this crap?, or (b) what on earth am I doing here? I should be outside enjoying life. And the rave scene? What was with that? That was one of the dumbest scenes ever made. And was I the only one saying to myself, at the end of each action fight, "now why didn't he do that (fly away, etc) in the first place?" Come on, we're too intelligent for this drivel.