What a waste of money.
I haven’t been to the theater since last December to watch Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secret w/ my coworkers who were Harry fans. I wished I watched anything but this.
The movie set up is rather clever. You have a lot of characters from famous works of lit – Quartermaine, Nemo, The Invisible Man, Dorian Gray, Dr. Jekyll, Mina Harker, Ton Sawyer, and they even included James Moriarty (if you’re a Sherlock Holmes fan, you’ll recognize that he’s the archenemy of Sherlock Holmes – most people, however, do not know him that well since Doyes’ rather more popular works on Sherlock do not feature Moriarty). Except that the film makers decided to bastardize these characters – when did Dorian ever become immortal? If I remember correctly in the original novel by Wilde (which everyone should read for the clever writing and the sheer dark fantasy aspect of it), Dorian was very much a mortal.
The opening was promising, but everything was incomprehensible. No word to describe the stupidity of it all. A big ass submarine cruising along the canals of Venice. Uh-huh. A flashy white convertible. Yeah right. And am I to believe that the villain’s too dumb to realize that his factory is located where he can’t ship his goods to his customers? What a joke. Am I to take this villain seriously? In addition to all this, people just point fingers at each other for no logical reason. I was keep thinking, “What the hell?!”
I know that some people would like to watch it cuz it’s based on the comic book, but it really sucked. Just be ready to boo at the end.