Too Much Funny, Not Enough Scary

Rating: Null/10 (27 August 2003)

I like my monster movies to be more scary than funny. They need to be played pretty straight to work. I had a problem with the dialogue and the "attitude" of the principle characters as well. It was anachronistic -- too much 1999, not enough 1923-'26.
Still, it has its moments. Some of the fights are fairly rousing, even if the style of gunplay is a bit fanciful. The big final battle in the tomb, where the hero has finally run completely out of ammunition, and has to fall back on cold steel, or cold bronze, as the case may be, is interesting and a little reminiscent of the big sword fight with the skeleton army in 1963's _Jason and the Argonauts-, which probably inspired it.