Unfortunately, this website does not permit a minus rating, nor even a Turkey (0) rating. The part that is really infuriating was that I could see places where, with a soupçon more effort and a better script, this might actually have been quite exciting.
The monsters simply weren't. The opening sequence had really nothing to do with the rest of the story, apart from introducing the concept of monsters. The dinosaur was ludicrous and there was no real sense of menace, the dragon marginally better, but still seriously flawed.
The action sequences looked and felt as if they had been gathered up from the cutting room floor where they had spliced together an episode of Dr Who, followed by The League of ExtraOrdinary Gentlemen.
The cast wandered aimlessly about in this mess, the script started ideas and then abandoned them, I wondered if there was a director at one point.
The worst fault of all was in the casting of Holmes. Ben Snyder simply did not have the gravitas, the authority, to carry off the character of Holmes. The character which has something of a reputation for absorbing the lives of the actors who play him was simply flat and lifeless in Mr Snyder's hands. In the end, I could not decide if I was annoyed or merely depressed by this film. Since I normally like this sort of thing that is a sad reflection to have.
The monsters simply weren't. The opening sequence had really nothing to do with the rest of the story, apart from introducing the concept of monsters. The dinosaur was ludicrous and there was no real sense of menace, the dragon marginally better, but still seriously flawed.
The action sequences looked and felt as if they had been gathered up from the cutting room floor where they had spliced together an episode of Dr Who, followed by The League of ExtraOrdinary Gentlemen.
The cast wandered aimlessly about in this mess, the script started ideas and then abandoned them, I wondered if there was a director at one point.
The worst fault of all was in the casting of Holmes. Ben Snyder simply did not have the gravitas, the authority, to carry off the character of Holmes. The character which has something of a reputation for absorbing the lives of the actors who play him was simply flat and lifeless in Mr Snyder's hands. In the end, I could not decide if I was annoyed or merely depressed by this film. Since I normally like this sort of thing that is a sad reflection to have.