What happened?

Rating: 1/10 (8 May 2004)

Some had a cool idea for a movie, but definitely pitched it to the wrong people. Oh wait, the guy that had the idea for the movie wrote the script. Which leads me to one conclusion: Sommers should have stopped writing movies after The Mummy Returns, at the latest. This movie had so much potential, but was wasted on terrible scripting, and way too much CGI. And not even good CGI. They should have just done the whole thing in CGI, a la Final Fantasy (even though I didn't much care for that movie, either). The only humor came from seeing David Wenham go from Faramir to a dorky, horny... friar? I forget what he was, even though he made the same joke about it twice. The second time was the funnier. The love interested between Jackman and Beckinsale was sophmoric at best. All in all, I thought it was lame. But hey, I work in a theater, and some kid saw it three times in a row, so to each his own, as they say.