This is mean to be a sort of TARZAN GOES TO MARS, but despite the $250 million budget, the film goes flat from time to time. The CGI sets, Martian cities and palaces and landscapes, are stunning - almost up there with LORD OF THE RINGS - but the script keeps stopping to give us heavy chunks of exposition.
The battle and chase scenes, when they come, are as thrilling as in any other space opera. It's the inbetween stuff that is yawn-inducing. The hero, Taylor Kitsch, comes with designer muscles and artfully dishevelled hair but he lacks the charisma that Jake Gyllenhaal (or even Arnold Schwarzeneggar, a few years back) could have brought to the role. Lynn Collins makes a feisty princess, perhaps a tad too sophisticated for our Rent-A-Hunk hero.
FLASH GORDON meets CLASH OF THE TITANS. Quite a jolly mixture but the blender needed to be on a higher speed.
The battle and chase scenes, when they come, are as thrilling as in any other space opera. It's the inbetween stuff that is yawn-inducing. The hero, Taylor Kitsch, comes with designer muscles and artfully dishevelled hair but he lacks the charisma that Jake Gyllenhaal (or even Arnold Schwarzeneggar, a few years back) could have brought to the role. Lynn Collins makes a feisty princess, perhaps a tad too sophisticated for our Rent-A-Hunk hero.
FLASH GORDON meets CLASH OF THE TITANS. Quite a jolly mixture but the blender needed to be on a higher speed.