You can't sell a film on a pretty actress, action scenes & lots of CGI. It needs a good story to bind it together & a plot to drive it from start to finish. The film is obviously based on a comic of some sort judging from the opening titles, and they try to hard to stick to the comic style. The plot gets left by the wayside and they go for lots of action and fighting which really doesn't help the film very much. Yes, Milla looks excellent in her various costumes which change colour on her as she wears them. The buildings and backdrops look stunning. You can tell that the fight scenes were made to look so fast by over-cranking the camera to get the illusion of more speed.
Sadly the film suffers from being over-cut. The DVD contains an alternate start (much better than the one used in the film) and several cut scenes (which I would have included in my version, I assume they were cut for pacing reasons) & some extended versions of already existing scenes (which were improvements on the actual scenes themselves). This film promised a lot & delivered a little. Milla gives a really bad DVD commentary, saying nothing for most of the movie. Not saying much when she does speak. The extra features are nothing special either. Generally a disappointing film. Try Jet Li in "Fearless", that was miles better than this.
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