Utter, Utter Crap

Rating: 1/10 (31 October 2002)

I'm a fan of Brendan Fraser, and a fan of Rachel Weisz. I'm a big fan of good action films, and even a lot of semi-good ones, and a big fan of pulp. I'm a big fan of special effects, if they're justified by the movie they're in.
But this is flat-out one of the worst movies I've ever seen. The writing and direction are simply atrocious, beyond bad. Scenes are shot as if without any forethought or planning or concept of what they'll look like on the screen. The story is so stupid that it's outright insulting -- not because it's about dead people coming to life, and so forth, but because it makes almost no sense at all and yet still manages to be completely predictable.
Dull story, bad action scenes, boring characters, tedious visuals, lame special effects -- just a colossal waste of money and talent. They spent about $100 million making this, and it looks like maybe $25 million. Not that it would be worth that.
Not half as good as "Deep Rising", by the same writer-director, and *that* wasn't exactly a great movie. I'll never watch another Stephen Sommers movie again, plain and simple. Not if it starred Jackie Chan, Renee Zellweger, and Jesus.