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Starring Brendan Fraser as Rick O'Connell, an adventurer and artifact collector
this movie is supposedly an Tongue-in-cheek Indiana Jones copy. The story
revolves around a museum curator trying to raise the long dead army of Arubus
and their leader the
Scorpian King, played by WWF's The Rock. (His acting was as good in this
movie as in his 'sports' bouts) However the resurgence of a long dead warrior to
counteract the Scorpian King's revival adds to Rick's trouble as he looks for
his kidnapped son who holds the
bracelet of Arubus which is needed to awaken the Scorpian King, as well as
trying to revive his recently murdered wife...
Woah!!! Hold on!! Confused yet? I'm not surprised. I'll not lie to you. This
movie is the worst film I've seen all year. (Which in itself is no mean feat,
previous holder was the amazingly bad no brainer flick, Vertical Limit) The
script I'm sure was either random ideas plucked out of a hat or by a chimpanzee
with a typewriter although I doubt a chimp would shame itself by showing this
piece of trash. The whole film is constant action, action, action, umm, action,
some more action, with just a smidge of, that's right, action! This made little
tension and just served to bore me after a while with it's cartoon type
violence. Brendan Fraser tries his best and acts his little heart out to achieve
his brave tough adventurer Indiana Jones persona but ends up with a Griff Rees
Jones type. The rest of the cast are that great either. Thankfully The Rock only
appears for about 5 minutes and says about 3 words. (Pushing him to the limits
in this one methinks.) He is at the end but it's really a computer generated one
so that doesn't count. But the worst of all was Rick O'Connell's son (I
disremember his name) who was this bratty little kid who kept shouting
"I've got it, We've got to go here, We've got to get this. C'mon!!" By
the midpoint of the film, I was wishing he was going to be hit by something, or
suffer some horrible death. Sadly neither materised.
Effects were pretty bad too. You had your regular as clockwork coregraphed
melee fight scene where somehow neither Hero nor accomplishes were injured. The
Computer graphics were pretty laughable as well, the sort of thing that would
have impressed 10 years ago and will seem very dated with the likes of the new
Final Fantasy film.
But worst of all, it's 2 hours and 10 minutes long. Not bad I hear you cry.
It felt like 5 hours, it was that bad and dull. I was halfway through and
already wishing I could go home. One of my biggest regrets of the evening was
handing over £5.10 to watch this piece of skunk excrement.
My only advise to you is to not go see this film, it is truly the worst thing
that has been seen this year. Don't even go if you have a thing for Brendan
Fraser (You already have my sympathies if you do) or one of the girls in the
film (It's a 12 fellas so don't
even hope.) or are mentally unstable. If you still persist in seeing this,
then you indeed are more idiotic that the muppets that made this piece of pap in
the first place..
You have been warned...
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