Rocket Surgery

What a dumb movie. Not that dumb is always bad, of course.

But in an action movie, you want to have suspense…you need to perceive that the protagonist is somehow threatened during the action sequences.  When a 67 year old man is blown up by a nuclear weapon and is thrown for (presumably) miles on the inside of a lead-lined refrigerator, then gets out and walks away without a single broken bone or even a bloody nose or lip, he’s basically invincible at that point and some chick with a sword is no threat.  When it happens at the beginning of the movie, how can you possibly care what happens to this guy?

And then when Mutt goes swinging through the vines like Tarzan…my eyes were rolling.

It was amazing to me that Spielberg was involved.  They definitely jumped the shark with this one. 1 and a half stars.

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