One of the most bizarre and of-it’s-time movies i have ever seen.
Trying to cash in on the vampire craze, 3D gimmicks, and the early wave of dystopian future films, it accomplishes nearly exactly half of its goals throughout its runtime.
Dafoe and Hawke turn in sometimes-passable performances that play to their 2009 typecastings and Sam Neill takes a bizarre villainous fat cat role practically snoozing. These three appear to have taken the entirety of the casting budget as every…
If you came to see some planes do some cool shit and to gasp a couple times waiting to see if a plane will burst into flames or out of smoke, then you came to the right place.
A bit overwrought in the “you’re supposed to be feeling something now” department, in a way that only an 80’s Legacy-quel could attempt. And the threads of a romantic tangle are so bare and drab that it feels nearly insulting.
But don’t let that stop you from relishing what is possibly the last blockbuster full of high octane arial dogfights we will ever see.
