Hayden Christiansen playing a teenager with superpowers, now where have I seen that before?
Well, anyway, the point of this is to tell you if it's any good or not. Put succinctly, it is. True, it's not great, but it is fun, has well-executed effects, good action sequences, pretty protagonists and a good villain in Samuel L. Jackson. It's kind of like an Essex Girl, this movie. ie Easy to get into, pretty forgettable and none the worse or less entertaining for it.
Hayden does little different here than he does in his two Star Wars films, but it works well enough and the supporting cast do an admirable job. Annasophia (didn't that used to be two names not so long ago?) Robb outshines them all in a cameo as the younger version of the love interest, as she is beginning to do in all her appearances. Definitely a major talent developing there.
None of the characters die and there's a minor plot-twist/revelation that looks like it might make a meatier sequel and I hope it gets one. For some reason they felt the need to give Diane Lane pretty obvious blue-tinted contacts over her brown eyes. I guess they thought she needed to have the same eye colour as her son. Shame it didn't cross their mind to do the same for AnnaSophia, as her eyes are blue and Rachel Bilson's are very dark brown. Guess that didn't matter so much to the film makers...
Well, anyway, the point of this is to tell you if it's any good or not. Put succinctly, it is. True, it's not great, but it is fun, has well-executed effects, good action sequences, pretty protagonists and a good villain in Samuel L. Jackson. It's kind of like an Essex Girl, this movie. ie Easy to get into, pretty forgettable and none the worse or less entertaining for it.
Hayden does little different here than he does in his two Star Wars films, but it works well enough and the supporting cast do an admirable job. Annasophia (didn't that used to be two names not so long ago?) Robb outshines them all in a cameo as the younger version of the love interest, as she is beginning to do in all her appearances. Definitely a major talent developing there.
None of the characters die and there's a minor plot-twist/revelation that looks like it might make a meatier sequel and I hope it gets one. For some reason they felt the need to give Diane Lane pretty obvious blue-tinted contacts over her brown eyes. I guess they thought she needed to have the same eye colour as her son. Shame it didn't cross their mind to do the same for AnnaSophia, as her eyes are blue and Rachel Bilson's are very dark brown. Guess that didn't matter so much to the film makers...
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