I vant my monaay back!!!!

Rating: Null/10 (15 May 2004)

What a sorry stinker created by such a talented writer/director. To say that this movie would be worth seeing for 13 year olds, would be an insult to the entire "tween" generation. While boasting a talented & capable array of actors this movie disabled them with an onslaught of CGI special effects. At one point I thought why do they need actors here anyway, why not CGI the entire thing? The whole budget could have been reduced by half if they slashed the special effects segments and just let the actors do their jobs. Providing of course the was a better plot, script and dialogue! It was painful sitting through the movie and watching it's eventual decent into the "death spiral", only to go up in smoke in the end. The ending was the "final stake thru the heart"! Didn't anyone tell the truth in the screening room? Apparently not! No amount of video games, action figures and fast food tie-ins can redeem the money lost in this production. I can only imagine that the initial script had an ending in the making. Because any actor who read this script and gave it the green light should have his head examined or get a better agent to make his decisions. What kind of signing bonus could they have possibly given? Even taken in the action/adventure/horror genre this movie was a so over the top it went back to lacking. If you're going to beat a dead horse, then you need to beat it very well. It need the right balance between tongue in cheek and drama. He had found it in the Mummy but couldn't seem to nail it here. It goes without saying that an audience can be very forgiving within this genre. So how could this have been such a spectacular disappointment? Needless to say I left the theater thinking "I vant my monaay back"!!!