What happened to the other 40 minutes?

Rating: 9/10 (10 July 2005)

Its hard to review half a film, kind of like Kingdom of Heaven (thankfully there's is going to be an extended edition of that one, hopefully one for this one too), but ill do my best. Sure there are great performances, visual f/x, and um..., o yeah there was supposed to be more to talk about. The performances were great, Oscar caliber from Tom and Dakota, Robbins is overrated in my opinion but can still turn in a believable performance. The action and visuals (the little that there is) is top notch, masterfully created to be intense, shocking, and provides some of the best eye candy, but like i said there's only about 5 minutes worth in the whole movie, there needs to be more, much, much, much more. The story exists but is rushed, especially the ending, its interesting and understandable, but the story deserves a full movie somewhere around 2 and a half hours, at least. The pace is just plain weird, plain and simple, the movie is too short, if there was more action and if the story was evenly paced this very well could have been "the movie of the decade" which Steven promised, but it isn't. The ending, which i wont ruin just to be a nice guy, makes sense but could have used alittle more foreshadowing so it could have been taken seriously, but it felt so wrong because in the last few seconds it just decides to end with no real reason, purpose, or climax, yeah a climatic destruction sequence would really have helped, a lot. So for half a movie its not bad, but its half a freaking movie, if there's not a directors cut or something then rent it, because you've seen the whole movie if you saw the trailer.