Fun, fast, furious, full of holes...

Rating: 6/10 (8 May 2004)

Yes, this movie has tons of plotholes. Yes this movie has all sorts of small flaws. Do those things matter to this movie? No, they do not. And why don't they matter? Because this is a James bond meets medieval fantasy. I had fun watching this movie. The people that went to see this movie and claims here that they would've "stormed the box office and demanded the money back for the entire audience" and request that the director should apologize in public for this movie, are idiots. This is a movie you watch if you like gung-ho action, to be suspended in disbelief by something so outré that no way in hell could this ever be real. And none of it can of course. But that's the beauty of it. This movie takes something so far out, so outrageous as this is, and turns it believable.
This is a great new action-movie. Action movies were best in the 80's and since then the genre has degenerated into horrible movies featuring The Rock or clever things with cool gimics, like The Matrix and Boondock Saints. This is more true to the action legacy of movies like Indiana Jones and James Bond than even the new James Bond movies.
Fun movie, but not a great movie. And there's a difference there. You can hammer this movie all you want, but that won't change that fact that it's still fun and you can enjoy yourself with this piece of excellent escapism. Just don't for one second think that it will contain a hidden message that will cause every person in the world to realise the errors of their ways and love each other.
8/10, judged like an actionmovie, not as a poetical masterpiece.