It just simply sucks!

Rating: Null/10 (19 May 2001)

I just saw this "movie", and I can't tell you how disappointed I was. The original was a fun ride, an ironic homage to the old pulp adventure genre. This is a 2-hour long action scene with bits of dialogue in between. No matter how good the action is, if the script is as flawed as this one you can't help but yawn in the audience. This movie discarded all the usual principals of basic storytelling. It had no beginning, no turning point, and an end that didn't much differ from the rest of the movie. None of the characters had any backround or any colour. All you could do to describe them would be to tell how they looked. A big black bad guy, A young brit kid, a tall handsome hero. Everything in the movie was just to promote the next action scene. The effects were crap too, by the way. Last years video games have better cgi than this. And since the movie was pretty much 90% digital FX anyway, what's the point in making a live picture out of it. Why not stick with computer animation the whole way? No use seeing this movie for the FX either, nothing special there. Now I know a summer blockbuster is supposed to be stupid and action packed, but come on! Is this what we've come to? Gimme a break!
Avoid at all cost. I'd hate to see this turn in to the future of filmmaking...