I know I must accept the fact that the vast majority of films fall into what we accept as mediocre and worse. To know that people paw and faun over that mediocrity in every way, shape and form on a daily basis is incredibly disheartening.
Ignoring many of the arguments that others have listed here as to why this movie is just plain bad, and they are all correct, let us examine just a smidgen of this piping hot and steaming pile of cow flop.
So called experienced archaeologist along with others who obviously do not think anything through essentially just scurry off into a newly opened pyramid without any preparation for such an endeavor.
Scene in point. Two of the intrepid imbeciles that constitute an entire group of imbeciles charge into a room to examine what precisely is located in the far corner of it. The room's floor begins to give way. At this point I have no idea why everyone basically stood and waited for said floor to completely collapse.
Next scene, the entire group has fallen approximately 25 foot or more along with tons of debris and no one is injured. All equipment is intact. We do see a sizable piece of stone fall onto the leg of a party member an he painfully objects to it. Someone has an incredibly powerful narcotic because after it is given to him, he immediately ceases making any verbal protests to the pain.
Mountain climbing woman decides to ascend a small vertical cylindrical passage. She climbs approximately 25 to 30 foot up the shaft and is attacked by a sphinx cat she encounters in a horizontal access passage. She falls that distance for the second time in less then five minutes incurring no damage except the scratch she received from said cat.
This was enough for me. Can a writer create a realistic situation in which we can get said group to where you wish them to be? Of course they can, if they have something called an imagination. We can get that group to where they are to be using reality as a basis! This way we are not exposed to absurd and preposterous events that in essence have just conveyed to the audience our said group of intrepid idiots are supermen! Impervious to the same laws of physics you and I are enmeshed within in this reality that WILL maim and kill us.
This was only approximately ten minutes of the film. I am READY to suspend my belief in that there is an Anubian-like beast running around the pyramid but please be coherent and cohesive in the writing peripherally to the beast!
I did love the comment pertaining to the archaeologist being incorrect when discussing Anubis. I am not an expert on Egyptian mythology but I knew he was incorrect.
As another reviewer pointed out. This movie is just bad. It is not mediocre. It is not bad funny. It is a movie that just should not exist and the 6.5 million dollars should have went to entities that REALLY needed it. This did not need to be made.
I can now proceed with the sulfuric acid enema that this movie forced me to concoct and utilize. I also believe I have experienced neural failure to a certain degree and believe I can repeatedly leap from the roof of my second story home uninjured.
Ignoring many of the arguments that others have listed here as to why this movie is just plain bad, and they are all correct, let us examine just a smidgen of this piping hot and steaming pile of cow flop.
So called experienced archaeologist along with others who obviously do not think anything through essentially just scurry off into a newly opened pyramid without any preparation for such an endeavor.
Scene in point. Two of the intrepid imbeciles that constitute an entire group of imbeciles charge into a room to examine what precisely is located in the far corner of it. The room's floor begins to give way. At this point I have no idea why everyone basically stood and waited for said floor to completely collapse.
Next scene, the entire group has fallen approximately 25 foot or more along with tons of debris and no one is injured. All equipment is intact. We do see a sizable piece of stone fall onto the leg of a party member an he painfully objects to it. Someone has an incredibly powerful narcotic because after it is given to him, he immediately ceases making any verbal protests to the pain.
Mountain climbing woman decides to ascend a small vertical cylindrical passage. She climbs approximately 25 to 30 foot up the shaft and is attacked by a sphinx cat she encounters in a horizontal access passage. She falls that distance for the second time in less then five minutes incurring no damage except the scratch she received from said cat.
This was enough for me. Can a writer create a realistic situation in which we can get said group to where you wish them to be? Of course they can, if they have something called an imagination. We can get that group to where they are to be using reality as a basis! This way we are not exposed to absurd and preposterous events that in essence have just conveyed to the audience our said group of intrepid idiots are supermen! Impervious to the same laws of physics you and I are enmeshed within in this reality that WILL maim and kill us.
This was only approximately ten minutes of the film. I am READY to suspend my belief in that there is an Anubian-like beast running around the pyramid but please be coherent and cohesive in the writing peripherally to the beast!
I did love the comment pertaining to the archaeologist being incorrect when discussing Anubis. I am not an expert on Egyptian mythology but I knew he was incorrect.
As another reviewer pointed out. This movie is just bad. It is not mediocre. It is not bad funny. It is a movie that just should not exist and the 6.5 million dollars should have went to entities that REALLY needed it. This did not need to be made.
I can now proceed with the sulfuric acid enema that this movie forced me to concoct and utilize. I also believe I have experienced neural failure to a certain degree and believe I can repeatedly leap from the roof of my second story home uninjured.