Monday, January 26, 2009

If You Want To Live, You Will Not Watch This Turd

There is no plausible reality in which this movie could be good, nor is there any plausible sense of reality in this movie. The villain is an all-too-obvious Hal 9000 rip-off that lives in a bee-hive underground and can basically do ANYTHING, except anything an actual functional computer does, i.e. use logic whatsoever. A computer is based on pure logic, yet Sexy-Voice-Hal's plan is the most ridiculously convoluted, unnecessary, and inefficient assassination plot ever conceived. The computer wants to take out the president because his bad decision led to the death of fifty or so American citizens, yet her plan to kill him would murder hundreds more, including innocent children. How is that logical? We are to believe this computer can do all of the ridiculous things it orchestrates in the movie, but that it cannot kill the POTUS without involving an entire concert hall full of people and an elementary school band kid's trumpet. This is a computer that can inexplicably take down power lines from thousands of miles away. Seriously, WTF? It's not like the couplings on the electrical towers are connected through the intertubes. Basically, it can control any piece of machinery and 'splode anything it wants, although we later find out it cannot access a convenience store security camera because it's not in its network. Why can't it just blow up the president's laptop or crash Air Force One? There is not one single piece of this disaster of a movie that makes any sense whatsoever. The action is all incomprehensible and unnecessary. Even Rosario Dawson's earth-shattering hotness is misused. A crime alone worth destroying all evidence of this film's horrid existence. (F)

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