Spectacular and empty...

Rating: Null/10 (7 May 2001)

Spectacular and extremely well made, and also suffering from lack of a coherent plot (though the story itself is interesting) and some of the worst acting to come along in a long, long time. The director, Stephen Sommers, must have had all his time taken up with directing the action and helping with the camera set-ups because he sure didn't spend much time on any of the characters. Brendan Frasier sleepwalks through this one and the little kid needs to take some serious acting lessons, quickly! Rachel Weisz is ok as are the villains, but it's all so over the top and at times so overbearingly cutesy that you cannot help but to wish for Hollywood to release a real film sometime. This is an overwrought video game blown up to 35mm film.
Check your brain at the door and don't expect any halfway interesting characters. Expect lots of CGI and noise, though. Some of which is worth a matinee price. But that's about it.