Wrong Audience

Rating: Null/10 (20 October 2004)

As presented to the world, this movie misses its mark.
Allow it a Hard R rating (think "Evil Dead"), soup up the story to that level, drop the PG-13 stuff, retain the budget and you have the makings of a genuine cult film.
The action is so hard and fierce in this, and its effects so restrained by its PG-13 rating, it strives and sets up but cannot deliver. This is an idea born of the Japanese Anime genre. Would have worked and played extremely well in that venue where cartoons are frequently rated R.
Making a Disney film of this subject, this way, was DOA.
But, man oh man, what a near miss. This could have been immortal.
Sad.