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Highly Overrated But Still Good

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Harrison Ford wouldn't be able to save this film. This was a cheap version of Indiana Jones but with no Indiana Jones. I think the film was going for clever and amusing but didn't quite get there. Robbie & Alexa are likable in anything they're in. They are pretty and pleasant and keep the film somewhat watchable. They also have good chemistry. This film could've been good if it had better writing & less cheese. The story wasn't too good either. I really couldn't get passed the ridiculousness to enjoy the movie. At least Robbie is cute and Alexa has good hair. This was a huge waste of Victor Garber's talents. I'm surprised he's in it as well as Robbie and Alexa. The mom acted too much like Jane Wayne. The villains could have been a little more intimidating versus Three Stooges like. There was definitely no reason for the good guys to be scared. All in all I did get through it so I gave them a solid 3 which is better than a walk away one.

The basic story-line is good but it has holes the size of the Grand Canyon.In the beginning, 2 Hunters (Husband and Wife team) go hunting for an object (a shard of the mirror from the snow white story) in Thailand and are betrayed by their new partner. Both hunters try to cross a valley on a single rope and harness at the same time but the line is cut. Most mysteriously the Husband goes missing and at the end of the movie he sends an SOS from Peru!!! How was he transported from Thailand to Peru? And why was the Wife not transported with him?Their 2 sons are told of their family business of Hunting by the elder one's ex-girlfriend (she is also a Hunter). The 3 go on a journey to find the shards. The children find the location of a shard in a cave. They find water flowing down a open Snake head statue into a basin and for some reason figure out that the water flow is "broken" and that they need to stop the flow of water to find the shard. The water flow mysteriously stops when the elder of the 2 keeps his hand in the snake's mouth. Now the basin has a vase. Instead of one of the other 2 extracting the vase, he gets it out with both hands. How come the vase didn't disappear when he removed the hand stopping the water flow.The story has a "filthy rich" villain who has only 3 henchmen.The Hunters motto "Find and protect, but never use". In the end the Wife destroys the mirror, which is a bummer. Why did you start searching for it in the first place and then continue searching for it if all you do is destroy the object in the end. I think that if they had just stopped searching for more missing pieces of the mirror and turn their efforts to regaining the shards taken from them in the first place, they could have served their motto better. Poor direction sums it all.

Well you can't blame the failure of this film to take off on the cast, because they were a capable and experienced cast, even the younger actors. However, they are given absolutely nothing to sink their teeth into. Everything about the flick is just watered down and meandering. If this had been a Disney or Hub flick it would have worked, or even if upgraded to a full blown fantasy flick, it would have worked, but it feels completely like this is a first draft and not a full fleshed film. The script is thin with stick figure characters, clotted with toss off explanations to move the story and beyond cliché plot points (the Asian assassin was almost painful to watch). Everything it had going for it is wasted.Complete and total lack of backstory. It would have been great to know how Tripp's techie skills and Pax's fighting skills had previously reared their heads, it was screaming for some actual examples of the fairytale items in modern times, and someone with a much cleverer wit to punch up the one liners. It seems like the money ran out somewhere, but there was no going back to get a good finished product. The cast did what they could with what they had.

I picked up this movie not knowing anything more about it than the short description on the back of the jacket. That being said I thought it sounded interesting, I pick up a lot of movies like this I'm not always as lucky as I was with this one.The movie was rich with subplots and the main plot itself was quite good. The idea that the items from fairy tales are real and that there is a secret society that collects and protects them without using them is intriguing. The acting was adequate and actually surprising better than anticipated. The locations were nice and went well with the script, not overly staged. I throughly enjoyed this movie!That being said, I truly felt that the idea behind this script deserved MORE. More everything, it left me feeling like I really wanted the next movie but yet felt more like the budget of a TV show. I think this could be an enjoyable main stream series of movies if there were just more meat to it. I mean, why do they carry crossbows instead of guns? I don't want to give too much out I'm just trying to make a point. This is a good movie but the story line has a lot of potential if they could just give it a little more soul.