Ugh, this is just one of those movies about which there is almost literally nothing to write. I listened for the first time to the Hollywood Saloon podcast last weekend (definitely recommended on the basis of just one episode) and they spoke at length about Roland Emmerich. I actually don’t have a great prejudice or bias for or against the guy really – Independence Day is fantastic, The Day After Tomorrow has its moments, Godzilla is great cheese and I found The Patriot very impressive coming from that same team (though, it’s interesting to note, like the Hollywood Saloon guys, I’m pushed to really remember much of that movie, lol).

So the problem I had coming to this movie was not Emmerich. The problem to me was – who really thought anybody actually wanted to see this thing? It’s just … nothing! We have seen all the visuals this movie has to offer many times before, often even better. I find the sabretooth tiger here no more lifelike than Aslan in the BBC’s adaptation of “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” 20 years ago let alone the more recent bigscreen version. The story is absolutely non-existent, purely an excuse for those visuals. My mind just boggles at why anybody felt this was worthy of the time, effort and money it takes to put a big budget movie together. It’s just appallingly useless.

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