The tomb of the "drags - on" movie
With a storyline convoluted by cheap theatrical devices, impossible scenarios, and poor acting, this film's only saving qualities are the gratuitous action scenes. They even have the cliché evil female accomplice with a pseudo nazi uniform and a scar on her cheek. Jet Li and Isabella Leong save the other boring or inept characterizations and Li doesn't have enough screen time to provide enough punch ("pun" intended) to keep the audience engaged. Maria Bello as Evelyn O'Connell is hard to adjust to after Rachel Weisz's previous portrayals have fixed the character in so many ways. Brendan Frazer plays - surprise! - Brendan Frazer. He's supposed to be playing a father in his early fifties, based upon the age of his son Alex - played well by Luke Ford, but he still acts the part as a twenty something smart mouthed rebel who neither shows fatherly nor spousal emotion in this retread of every character Brendon has done. See it for the action scenes - but beware of the drag-on!