I'm sorry, I tried to like this movie...

Rating: Null/10 (10 May 2004)

I just couldn't force myself to like it. And I felt so sorry for Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale. I really hope this isn't a downward spiral for them. She started off so well in Pearl Harbor and He was so suave in Kate and Leopold and X-Men. What happened? Apparently Hollywood does not learn from their past boo-boos. Didn't they already try this story in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen? And didn't it suck? A resounding YES! Please, Hollywood, stop torturing America with these weak-plotted films, shallow-plastic characters and unrealistic cartoony action scenes. My fiance and I found ourselves giving each other pathetic, nauseated glances every time another unbelievable escape scene finished with each character somehow trying to look sexy and unruffled added in with some cliche line. And when we weren't giving each other sad looks, we were looking at our watches thinking we would have had a better time browsing in Walmart. It was really just sad. No other way to put it. Just sad and disappointing.
BTW, if anyone is interested in an actually GOOD monster movie: check out Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, made a few years ago with Keiffer Southerland and Robert Deneiro.