Don't bother with this one, especially if you like Sommers previous work.

Rating: 2/10 (15 January 2005)

This movie was a huge disappointment. I sat down expecting a movie of with a decent story, some cool fight scenes, and interesting characters who would defeat a really big scary bad guy. Decent story, um no. Too many incongruities and unanswered questions. Cool fight scenes...okay I give in here...there were some interesting fights, but nothing truly spectacular. Interesting characters. They could have been, but they were so poorly presented to the audience that I had to wonder whether the director considers his audience to be mentally incapacitated. Character history is spoon-fed in stilted dialogue and you don't truly get a sense of any of the characters. And big scary bad guy...just no.
The worst part is that this could have been a truly entertaining action movie. Unfortunately, half an hour into it I couldn't figure out whether the lead had serious angst or not, and was in fact wondering whether this was an action, drama, comedy, or horror flick. The techniques Sommers used to highlight humor, drama and action in earlier films were so inappropriately used as to be distracting from the story...hmm, considering the deficiencies there, perhaps it was intentional.