Every movie has several elements that play together, and can support each other. These elements are acting, writing, premise, plot, special effects, and level of entertainment. It provides a web the pull the viewer through the piece.
If one area is lacking, the others can make up for it, to a point.
In this movie, I am sorry to say that even the decent acting by the recognizable actors was not enough to save this bomb.
The actors did the best they could with what they had. The problem was everything else.
The writing made the characters, at best, two dimensional. From the scientist who sacrificed himself in an insane bid to save his daughter to the tough-as-nails guy, to the pilot who just wants to help, this movie was full of cliché. Even then, it could have been a campy hit with good dialog or special effects. Neither delivered, with stunningly obvious green screens, way too much gore for any but the demented son of a slaughterhouse knocker, and dialog that made my ears want to bleed.
The final insult was the last minute "And they all lived happily ever after" implication.
All in all, I wish they could refund me the time it took to make it through this atrocity.
If one area is lacking, the others can make up for it, to a point.
In this movie, I am sorry to say that even the decent acting by the recognizable actors was not enough to save this bomb.
The actors did the best they could with what they had. The problem was everything else.
The writing made the characters, at best, two dimensional. From the scientist who sacrificed himself in an insane bid to save his daughter to the tough-as-nails guy, to the pilot who just wants to help, this movie was full of cliché. Even then, it could have been a campy hit with good dialog or special effects. Neither delivered, with stunningly obvious green screens, way too much gore for any but the demented son of a slaughterhouse knocker, and dialog that made my ears want to bleed.
The final insult was the last minute "And they all lived happily ever after" implication.
All in all, I wish they could refund me the time it took to make it through this atrocity.