shoulda woulda coulda been A LOT better

Rating: 2/10 (7 May 2004)

Don't go into this movie expecting much. In all honesty I'd wait for DVD or cable. There's not much here except for eye candy: even that looks like it belongs more in a video game rather than a movie screen. The movie tries very hard to weave together subplots and to build some amount of compassion for the characters but fails miserably. Comparisons to last year's equally disappointing League of Extraordinary Gentlemen are not far off. Both films lack substance and rely mainly on flashy visuals and predictible stories to occupy their audience's time. A lone high is the film's opening, which only serves to make the rest of the movie an even bigger disappointment. A big letdown of a summer movie but not all that surprising given that writer/director Stephen Sommers is also responsible for the equally vapid Mummy movies.
2/10 (2 points for a rather decent opening sequence)