Film Reviews by ME

The first third of the film got me interested. How often do you see the sheriff as a young woman with a drinking problem instead of some old white dude (with a drinking problem), for instance? We're tantalised with some horrific incident in her (presumably) near past that I wanted to know more about and then the action starts... with the camera being thrown around so much I couldn't stand watching the film any more. I can tolerate it when some kind of action sequence is taking place but the camera just didn't seem to stop waving around once it had started. To me it was unwatchable and my one star rating is based on that, since I never even got to half way through.

Personally, I found this to be Vin's finest acting yet! Note that I have only ever seen him as Riddick, not any of his other movie franchises. If you enjoyed his other sci-fi/fantasy type movies then this shouldn't disappoint.

I personally couldn't tell you what the review complaining about "a boring rehash of other horror action films" was on about because this isn't horror. It's sci-fi/fantasy. But then they, along with the other one complaining about it because they expected more from Micheal Cain, presumably only watched the film because he was in it. His name isn't even on the cover. He only appears on screen for a short amount of time. Get over it.

The first half of the film was just a giant advert for tourism in China. The second half of the film was better, in that it wasn't an advertisement, but still failed to deliver.

I enjoyed this film and would have rated it higher if it weren't for the cop-out ending. The curious thing is the timer running at the bottom of the screen for the entire duration of the movie, mostly fixed by forcing the picture to display at 16:9.

For a group of people on the run, they spend a heck of a lot of time waiting around to be caught up by the bad guys.