Get Your Ahss to Moz

Rating: Null/10 (15 November 2002)

Imaginative but utterly dreadful Schwarzeneger vehicle, with quite possibly the worst script ever written. Perhaps there was simply no money left after the special effects budget to employ a writer, so everyone improvised, or maybe just wrote their own lines? As for the special effects, excellent in their imagination, but like Arnold's one time mysterious box office appeal, Time has rudely passed it by. Much of the set design too seems victim of an expired budget, so that by the last half hour, it watches like a Star Trek episode. From the Kirk era. In fact, it all looks pretty damn silly now. Tron, Logan's Run, etc. And the violence, good gracious! Like most of Verhoeven's action 'work' this movie is obscenely violent, and the inane dialogue strives to set a new record in gratuitous usage of the F word for the F word's sake. I wonder when watching a movie like this, and spotting all of the product placement i.e. Pepsi, Jack In the Box, Lite Beer, what future generations will make of all this? Probably wonder why none of the sex pornography of our generation wasn't likewise sponsored by the consumer product giants. Karl Marx called religion the opiate of the masses, but he didn't live long enough for Hollywood to show him just how wrong he was. For shame!