You can't actually go wrong when you've got John working with Kurt, Victor and myths. The plot is great, develops swiftly, and the pacing is fast and non-stop without this ever being overwhelming. It doesn't overstay its welcome, either. Russell delivers one-liners, and a spot-on performance, heck, everyone who needs to, acts well in this. They also found the coolest, meanest looking Asians who could fight and put 'em in this. The martial arts are seriously kick-ass. The supernatural aspects are a perfect mix of silly and incredible, with fantastic and interesting material, done in a tone that is relatively respectful but also poking fun, so regardless of how you feel about spiritual type stuff, if you like adventure flicks(and, honestly, in almost all cases, I don't, and I enjoyed myself immensely), you will probably love this. This has highly imaginative, and quite weird, creatures and occurrences. The humor is excellent, much of it coming from the well-written dialog, the music is well-composed and fitting, and this is a smoothly blended mix of fun-filled action, horror and mystical events in a film that you can barely take your eyes off, all of this adding up to a real tour de force by Carpenter. Whoever says movies can't be creative and hold surprises... you're watching the wrong ones. There is language in this, reasonably infrequent and mostly mild, no sex and the violence is PG, whilst rather exciting and engaging. I recommend this to any fan of the director, actors and/or anyone else who helped make this happen. 7/10
