The Shaft (2001)
1/10
i want that 90 minutes of my life back
17 June 2007
Naomi Watts must've been a bit short on the rent when she agreed to sign up for this turkey. Without doubt, this was one of the most inane, farcical and annoying pieces of rubbish it has ever been my misfortune to watch.

There isn't even one decent scare in this z-grade schlock-fest, and it becomes unintentionally humorous towards the end with the extremely low budget special effects. Having said that, if they had spent the minuscule amount of money they had put into the sfx into getting a decent scriptwriter/s, then this might have been a watchable film.

The dialogue is awful enough to make good actors such as Ms Watts and Ron Pearlman look like nothing more than animatronic simulcra in search of a personality, and in general, the whole thing tries to come across as a big-budget Hollywood blockbuster to no avail.

I want the 90 minutes of my life back that were thoroughly wasted on this crappy excuse for a film. If i had seen it at the cinema,I would not just have demanded my money back, i would have stormed into the projection booth and burned the film print.

Awful. Truly awful.
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