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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 5716808" data-attributes="member: 32740">Had a big, detailed review all typed out and then I clicked to close the wrong open window and lost it all.  Le sigh. Short version is that it's adequate as an action movie in the same way that the Resident Evil movies are adequate as action/horror.  It is an AWFUL adaptation of the original source material.  It was not an original script so much as one that was cut/pasted using lines from dozens of other movies of all kinds.  Lots of recycled dialogue.  Okay fight scenes.  Great effects - all LOOKING good, but simultaneously looking very NOT real, if you get what I'm saying.  Shallow characterization in the script, too much wooden acting (though they all have so little to really DO or SAY anyway).  Definitely over-the-top action and NOT swashbuckling. I saw it in 3D.  Well, it was SUPPOSED to be in 3D anyway.  As soon as it started you could see something was totally WRONG about the 3D effects.  About 20 minutes in I figured out that they had loaded the film backwards - which is to say that the left image was projected from the right, the right image was projected left and the polarizing glasses were causing the two images to overlap - any scene with deep background was bleeding through foreground images with foreground trying to bury itself in the background.  Had to wear the 3D glasses UPSIDE DOWN through the whole movie to get the images to merge correctly.  Went to complain but of course at that point there's nothing to do but let the film run its course and fix it for the next show.  Of course the projectionist spent 10-15 minutes shutting off one projector then another while he tried to figure out how CATASTROPHICALLY he'd f'd up.  Which, of course, forced us to keep taking our glasses off and on to see anything that didn't cause brain hemorrhaging. And I STILL managed to find it reasonably enjoyable.  Maybe I was just that entertained by the whole affair as a relative disaster.</blockquote>

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