I remember the trailers of this movie being everywhere in my old theater (like in February 2000), and even for a 1 year old, I got mixed expectations. I saw it in theaters (week after Gladiator) and man I was bored to tears from that movie. I saw it again and boy my opinion is still the same. This movie was doomed from the start since the idea of adapting a very outdated book from Scientologist L. Ron Hubbard.
Anyway, the story is about a guy named Johnny Goodboy Tyler (Barry Pepper) being captured by an alien race called the Pyschlos (bare with me) who rule the Earth in the year 3000 by scratch and haven't even checked Kentucky (you'll see why when you did survived through the movie like me). If you want to know why, it is because they all want gold (yeah, one of the Pyschlos might be none other than Mr. Goldfinger). The villain of this movie (I think) is none other than Terl (John Travolta), and he and his race are the worst villains in movie history. Because they're a bunch of idiots and Terl hasn't even checked the Pyschlo library to know what humans eat. Anyways, It is up to Pepper and his group of peoples to make the Psychlo race to an end and destroyed the Pyschlo planet (spoilers).
I had HUGE problems with the script, story and plot. First being that there is so many goddamn plot-holes that are bigger than my old jeans. Like I mentioned, the Psychlos are idiots (because how come they can ruled the Earth yet know nothing about us other than that we eat rats?) and the humans aren't even better either. They're obviously monkeys that are trying to be the heroes and being the smartest ones, when reality they don't know how the whole Pyschlo race works and they always make sounds (no wonder why Travolta called them man-animals). Of course they are the obvious ones like it is really stupid to think that there's still electricity for 1,000 years despite the fact that the whole human race is screwed, but I want to go to another topic so that way I won't feel so mad about myself.
The acting. Only one good thing about this whole entire movie and that's Forrest Whittaker, that's it. Everyone else looks like they don't want to be in this doomed project. Travolta's voice sounds like a overreacting girl by yelling at the co-stars and his delivery in this movie is worse. Pepper's performance is not interesting. Let's go to technical right now.
The technical. There is no good things about the technical stuff either, and it's funny when you think that this movie cost like $73 million to make. The effects look cheap and unfinished. The direction is horrendous (why so many Dutch angles?), and everything else is terrible, especially the score as well.
Overall:
If I find something worse than this (other than Disaster Movie), I will shoot my brains out. Don't watch this movie, it's not the 'so bad it's entertaining' type of movie and it'll never be. I mean like this movie is like what..14 years old, and it's still remembered for the wrong reasons and I'm glad for that. I'm gonna watch something good tomorrow. I'm gonna watch some Die Hard.
(IMDb score): 1/10.
(My actual score): 0.1/10.
Anyway, the story is about a guy named Johnny Goodboy Tyler (Barry Pepper) being captured by an alien race called the Pyschlos (bare with me) who rule the Earth in the year 3000 by scratch and haven't even checked Kentucky (you'll see why when you did survived through the movie like me). If you want to know why, it is because they all want gold (yeah, one of the Pyschlos might be none other than Mr. Goldfinger). The villain of this movie (I think) is none other than Terl (John Travolta), and he and his race are the worst villains in movie history. Because they're a bunch of idiots and Terl hasn't even checked the Pyschlo library to know what humans eat. Anyways, It is up to Pepper and his group of peoples to make the Psychlo race to an end and destroyed the Pyschlo planet (spoilers).
I had HUGE problems with the script, story and plot. First being that there is so many goddamn plot-holes that are bigger than my old jeans. Like I mentioned, the Psychlos are idiots (because how come they can ruled the Earth yet know nothing about us other than that we eat rats?) and the humans aren't even better either. They're obviously monkeys that are trying to be the heroes and being the smartest ones, when reality they don't know how the whole Pyschlo race works and they always make sounds (no wonder why Travolta called them man-animals). Of course they are the obvious ones like it is really stupid to think that there's still electricity for 1,000 years despite the fact that the whole human race is screwed, but I want to go to another topic so that way I won't feel so mad about myself.
The acting. Only one good thing about this whole entire movie and that's Forrest Whittaker, that's it. Everyone else looks like they don't want to be in this doomed project. Travolta's voice sounds like a overreacting girl by yelling at the co-stars and his delivery in this movie is worse. Pepper's performance is not interesting. Let's go to technical right now.
The technical. There is no good things about the technical stuff either, and it's funny when you think that this movie cost like $73 million to make. The effects look cheap and unfinished. The direction is horrendous (why so many Dutch angles?), and everything else is terrible, especially the score as well.
Overall:
If I find something worse than this (other than Disaster Movie), I will shoot my brains out. Don't watch this movie, it's not the 'so bad it's entertaining' type of movie and it'll never be. I mean like this movie is like what..14 years old, and it's still remembered for the wrong reasons and I'm glad for that. I'm gonna watch something good tomorrow. I'm gonna watch some Die Hard.
(IMDb score): 1/10.
(My actual score): 0.1/10.