I did the same thing last night -- tried to watch it, and quit 20 minutes or so in. No characters. They are all made of cardboard. It goes without saying, no character development. And no plot. Movies used to tell stories. Today, most of them are a mindless series of action sequences. Plus, we've seen the basic premise of this movie a hundred times before.
I have to say, I was prejudiced against this movie from the start, because I don't like Dwayne Johnson. Do I dislike him because he's part nigger? No, I dislike him because he has less acting ability than a 2X4. This movie was trying to be an international crime caper pic, while at the same time trying for a "Raiders of the Lost Ark" vibe mixed with a "DaVinci Code" vibe. It's like Dwayne stepped right off the river boat in his last Disney pic and right into the museum in this turkey. "You don't look like an expert on ancient art." Yeah, tell me about it.
The women in these kinds of movies are all robots -- they look the same, sound the same, say the same lame, empty things, have the same hair styles, the same tinted contact lenses, the same inflated lips. They are there to degrade and insult the men, who are all 5-year-olds in adult bodies. That little actor bouncing around on the scaffold, who the fuck is he? He's so generic and uninteresting, I don't even recognize him or know his name. And I don't care enough to look him up.
What a total piece of nothing. You know that gray flakey stuff you find on the insides of padded brown mailing envelopes when you tear them in half? This movie is that gray, flakey filler. Light, dry, boring. It's just there.
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