You know, this could have been a pretty good movie. Really! The concept is kinda cool, and the casting was pretty good.
Too bad Number One failed to materialize a good movie out of all the potential.
Look, the whole geeky-guy gets cute-chick thing worked fine in all the other thousand movies it was used in, like say War Games. But hey, there are geeky girls out there too, and if they don't look like fashion models, at least they're real.
Spoilers ahead, beware.
What are the odds that our hero will be in hyper-time at the exact moment as the villains? Oh... they switch from hyper time to real time during a car chase, but the bad guys can't just switch back into hyper time to catch them? Sigh.
That's what everyone else here was commenting on... plot holes big enough to plant corn in. But hey, somehow it just doesn't matter, because it's only fantasy aimed at kids, right?
Wrong. Moviemakers need to pay attention to these kinds of details. Details are the difference between a mildly amusing movie like this, and a truly awesome movie like the original 3 Star Wars, or War Games, or Star Trek II.
Fix the details, at least try to explain it to us. This could have been a great movie. Instead it was mediocre. I rated it a 5.
Frakes, you were a mediocre director during your Star Trek days, and you're a mediocre director now. Why not buy some skills with the money you're making?
Too bad Number One failed to materialize a good movie out of all the potential.
Look, the whole geeky-guy gets cute-chick thing worked fine in all the other thousand movies it was used in, like say War Games. But hey, there are geeky girls out there too, and if they don't look like fashion models, at least they're real.
Spoilers ahead, beware.
What are the odds that our hero will be in hyper-time at the exact moment as the villains? Oh... they switch from hyper time to real time during a car chase, but the bad guys can't just switch back into hyper time to catch them? Sigh.
That's what everyone else here was commenting on... plot holes big enough to plant corn in. But hey, somehow it just doesn't matter, because it's only fantasy aimed at kids, right?
Wrong. Moviemakers need to pay attention to these kinds of details. Details are the difference between a mildly amusing movie like this, and a truly awesome movie like the original 3 Star Wars, or War Games, or Star Trek II.
Fix the details, at least try to explain it to us. This could have been a great movie. Instead it was mediocre. I rated it a 5.
Frakes, you were a mediocre director during your Star Trek days, and you're a mediocre director now. Why not buy some skills with the money you're making?