I would have given this movie "0" stars, but it wasn't an option.
I knew absolutely nothing about this movie except for having heard its name at one time or another. The credits at the beginning were so small that all I could see were the butterfly pictures, so there were no clues there for me.
The annoying bits started right at the beginning-kidnapped/escape; chased/hide; grabbed/saved. Over and over again. A poor man's Indiana Jones I decided. Even a poor man deserves better.
The overview of this film is the tired plot of feisty heroine and loyal friend finding a manly man to lead them through the jungle, across the desert and over the mountains to find her missing father. YAWN.
The heroine was randomly naive, coy, and irritating. The "hero" was consistently hateful. Maybe it was lousy acting, maybe it was the director's vision. In either case, "Willard" could have been replaced with the rat of the same name and the movie would have been better. With the way this movie was going, I assumed the heroine's faithful sidekick was infatuated with her. Could be. Who knows?
After a short while I realized that the lip movements and voices didn't match the characters. Okay, so this was a foreign film. Then they started having the female leads topless. Okay, so the movie was either Italian or French. When we get to the land of the Yik Yak, the Oriental flourishes appeared. Ah ha! French. Now I knew I was in for artsy, futuristic nonsense like "The Fifth Element."
Par for the course, we now have leather outfits, women in bondage scenes, and various forms of female nudity. Oh, and by the way, it is the usual female only society where men are used and sacrificed.
I have to assume that all of the previous reviews were written by men. I tried to watch this drivel. I really did. I kept asking my husband, "What happened? Why did they do that? What did I miss?" Bless his heart, he assured me I didn't miss anything, because the movie didn't make sense from one scene to the next.
I have to admit that I am not turned on by female nudity, so by the end of this travesty my eyes were crossed and tearing, and my chin had drooped to my chest. Leaving my brain at the door wasn't necessary. By the end of this movie I was brain-dead.
I knew absolutely nothing about this movie except for having heard its name at one time or another. The credits at the beginning were so small that all I could see were the butterfly pictures, so there were no clues there for me.
The annoying bits started right at the beginning-kidnapped/escape; chased/hide; grabbed/saved. Over and over again. A poor man's Indiana Jones I decided. Even a poor man deserves better.
The overview of this film is the tired plot of feisty heroine and loyal friend finding a manly man to lead them through the jungle, across the desert and over the mountains to find her missing father. YAWN.
The heroine was randomly naive, coy, and irritating. The "hero" was consistently hateful. Maybe it was lousy acting, maybe it was the director's vision. In either case, "Willard" could have been replaced with the rat of the same name and the movie would have been better. With the way this movie was going, I assumed the heroine's faithful sidekick was infatuated with her. Could be. Who knows?
After a short while I realized that the lip movements and voices didn't match the characters. Okay, so this was a foreign film. Then they started having the female leads topless. Okay, so the movie was either Italian or French. When we get to the land of the Yik Yak, the Oriental flourishes appeared. Ah ha! French. Now I knew I was in for artsy, futuristic nonsense like "The Fifth Element."
Par for the course, we now have leather outfits, women in bondage scenes, and various forms of female nudity. Oh, and by the way, it is the usual female only society where men are used and sacrificed.
I have to assume that all of the previous reviews were written by men. I tried to watch this drivel. I really did. I kept asking my husband, "What happened? Why did they do that? What did I miss?" Bless his heart, he assured me I didn't miss anything, because the movie didn't make sense from one scene to the next.
I have to admit that I am not turned on by female nudity, so by the end of this travesty my eyes were crossed and tearing, and my chin had drooped to my chest. Leaving my brain at the door wasn't necessary. By the end of this movie I was brain-dead.