Indeed that belongs in another column. So Arnold the action star meets Arnold the bearded thespian. To his credit though, he turns in some of his best acting, but still remains a little stiff. Thankfully, in this film the comic book style butt kicking has some grasp of reality and isn t subjugated to a cartoon character s level. Enter Arnold, excuse me Ahnuld, as Jericho Cane, a troubled ex-cop mourning the loss of his family who stumbles onto the task of preventing the dark angel from creating the end of days.
Simple plots are fine as long as they have an underlying tension or mask a more general overture.
Y2K merely exploits the millennium and doesn t go beyond the surface action. Sure, the film attempts an exploration into faith by way of a self-tortured hero, but blowing up a church and having Satan s face appear through a fiery mass, which some might recognize from The Mummy, does not so eloquently depict the battle of good v. evil. There s definitely more eloquent ways to comment on these woeful times. The acting is fine throughout, especially since the cast has to overcome the thoughtless dialogue and blatantly obvious symbolic names that substitute for the lack of depth. Byrne adeptly switches sides from playing a priest in Stigmata and Kevin Pollack makes the most of his buddy role who seems to have the one-liners normally given to Ahnuld.