Everything Swank

Warner Bros. has managed to dump huge money in a film that was bound to be a huge box office bomb.  I don’t care if the Wachowski brothers threw their magic dust all over this one, this was ticking from the beginning.

Car movies are rarely compelling.  No matter how you glitz them up its hard to make them interesting.  There was so much visual flash, you had to wonder going it exactly how much this thing was going to suck.   The Wachowski Brothers are extremely talented and creative, but at the end of the day you need to know what story you are selling to the audience.  After watching the trailers and seeing the posters, I cannot for the life of me figure out what story they are trying to sell.

This movie has very intense computer graphics that are reminiscent of video games.  The problem being this isn’t a video game.  This is a video game sequences splashed in between a story and plot that never really delivers.  Movies are at the point where they cannot deliver a graphic or interactive experience on par with the top end video games in terms of “a-ha” effect.

If Warner Bros. was looking to start another franchise or show they have what it takes to translate Comics into movies, they took two giant steps back.  Let’s hope “The Dark Knight” was a much better effort.

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