Mutant Chronicles (2008)
Dec 31, 2008Future War With the Mutants
Long-planned project that creates an interesting future scenario, epic action, an array of Dirty Dozen characters but emerges as surprisingly trivial
Tom Wu
The Scorpion King: Rise of a Warrior (2008)
Aug 13, 2009Sword and Sorcery
Prequel to The Scorpion King. Unfortunately director Russell Mulcahy allows his broad hand with comedy free reign and the plot is overrun by glib character banter and constant flip modern one-liners
Ra. One (2011)
Jun 17, 2012Bollywood Film/Superhero Emerges From a Videogame
A Bollywood venture into science-fiction that does a reasonably impressive job of trying to mount CGI superheroics … on the other hand, the plot deals in simplistic black-and-whites and draws on models of SF two decades out of date
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
Jul 15, 2017Arthurian Legends
Guy Ritchie's take on the Arthurian legends is an awkward beast that comes out as half wannabe Michael Bay film giddy with CGI delirium and half one of Ritchie's typical Man's Man caper films