Stupidity to the Max

Rating: 3/10 (1 July 2000)

This movie is just so stupid. This is a movie that starts out as a pointless action movie, and then at the end tries to be a powerful epic. But instead of truly involving us in the story (like Gladiator does) it just decides to kill people the audience likes, in order to manipulate their emotions. Now, I understand that all a film is manipulation of emotions, but a good film hides that so that you actually feel bad when someone dies, not cheated. I felt cheated. On top of that the film is predictable and cheesy. I like a good cheesy film like Army of Darkness, but that knows that it cheesy, this doesn't. Now, most of this wouldn't matter if the film were entertaining, but it isn't. And the last hour of the film goes on forever. See Gladiator if you can, it is much better.