Why is it that in any action flick the bad guys can't hit anyone with automatic rifles, tanks or rocket-firing helicopters? The cars and boats they pepper with machine gun fire keep right on going way longer than they should. The good guys must have force shields around them because they're never hit. But they hit everything they fire at........
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.....even with a 150 year-old cannon. OK, the toxic waste is a few days from reaching the ocean and causing global catastrophe. Apparently once the bad guys are dead the danger disappears. The river is clean, people are no long being poisoned and the toxins are cleaned up. And the doctor has a treatment for severe toxic waste poisoning. Yeah, right. Finding a Civil War ironclad in the desert was more of an anti-climax than the fulfillment of a lifelong quest. The scene of the ironclad escaping Union canon fire was well done but there was no explanation of the crew's mission rather than to escape with gold. Of all the places they might have sailed, why Africa and up the Niger River? In the book the crew had kidnapped Abraham Lincoln and our heroes found his remains in the ship. Not here. Characters walk or ride camels through the Sahara Desert for days with no food or water while cracking jokes. Have I made my point? Another interesting premise ruined by failure to suspend disbelief.
Spoilers Below.
.....even with a 150 year-old cannon. OK, the toxic waste is a few days from reaching the ocean and causing global catastrophe. Apparently once the bad guys are dead the danger disappears. The river is clean, people are no long being poisoned and the toxins are cleaned up. And the doctor has a treatment for severe toxic waste poisoning. Yeah, right. Finding a Civil War ironclad in the desert was more of an anti-climax than the fulfillment of a lifelong quest. The scene of the ironclad escaping Union canon fire was well done but there was no explanation of the crew's mission rather than to escape with gold. Of all the places they might have sailed, why Africa and up the Niger River? In the book the crew had kidnapped Abraham Lincoln and our heroes found his remains in the ship. Not here. Characters walk or ride camels through the Sahara Desert for days with no food or water while cracking jokes. Have I made my point? Another interesting premise ruined by failure to suspend disbelief.