Dreadful

Rating: Null/10 (29 September 2004)

...truly dreadful! Like many, I had high hopes for this film. As it turns out, it's just noisy (very noisy) rubbish that discards story and character development in favour of dumb action. Now, this isn't necessarily a bad thing in other movies - nothing at all wrong with mindless entertainment, after all - but this just wasn't entertaining even on that level. In retrospect, I guess the signs were all there. After the woeful 'Mummy Returns' fiasco, it was obvious that Sommers had used up all his good ideas in the first Mummy movie. 'Hellboy' was everything this movie could have - should have! - been. Exciting, entertaining and funny. See this movie if you must, but don't expect much. That way, you won't be disappointed.