Sorry Bob, but the Gaithster, who very much looked forward to seeing this, found it to be total crap.
- I'd say that JC as a protagonist is a zero, but as a once-CSA officer, he starts out at a -5 for me, and never improves. He needed some kind of weakness, a la Indy's fear of snakes.
- The princess... okay, was pretty decent, but she falls in love with JC for no reason, thus negating much of my interest in her.
- The villains were terrible: no motivation, no menace, no personality, no sense. Who were the albino people, where were they from, etc.? I didn't care one bit.
- The Tharks were pretty cool. I did like them.
- The direction was awful, frenetic and monotonous. The editing was way too fast throughout the movie, often giving us four of five shots of simple establishing beats where one would have been far better.
- The score... horrible. Loud beyond belief and devoid of any kind of personality.
- There was no consistency whatsoever to JC's powers. He can jump hundreds of meters at a time and land without pain, but can also be slapped around/dragged/dueled with at the movie's convenience. No. Just no.
- I was amused to see both Caesar's assistant and then Julius Caesar himself. And then one of Caesar's men starts speaking, and I was all, wouldn't it be funny if that were Antony? And lo, it was Antony! Seeing those two together again was by far the best part of the movie. When he tells JC to take him hostage, Purefoy shows more wit and personality than the protagonist does the whole way through. If he'd been the lead, the movie might have had a chance.
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