Review of 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea

It's hard to imagine why anyone would want to do such injustice to Jules Verne and his original brilliant tale of an genius anti-hero whose tragic life propels him on an ill-fated attempt to rid the world of war. Instead, we get some cranky British guy whose strange pauses before and after each line of dialogue makes one think all his scenes were filmed absent of anyone else in the room. This intensely cheap production is not just filled with shoddy acting and subpar CGI, but the script is like a freshman creative writing student's first efforts to raid B movies and bad TV shows for something to plagiarize. You can't even get lost in the toys. The Nautilus looks like some bizarre spaceship -- kind like a Star Trek alien ship missing its engines -- rather than a submarine, and the action is remarkably dull. Just an incompetent production all around.