I have to admit that I never finished the movie and turned off the player at approximately 60 minutes mark, I know it is an embarrassing confession but the movie was so bad I just couldn't continue. I was total waste of time. I may look at IMDb ratings before watching a movie but never read a review before actually seeing one so my expectation of the movie relies purely on the movie itself. I am very strict on my standards. I expect to know who is the hero of the movie by 10% mark. Well we know by the title that Adele Blanc is supposed to be the hero but there is no sign of her before 13% mark and after that we see her in some sort of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" parody mini adventure which has nothing to do with the resolve of the movie, just an introduction and I would say that the introduction came rather late and wasted too much time. If GOD FORBID I were to write the screenplay, I would put the parody-introduction section along with the dinosaur thing moving back and forth between Egypt and Paris so at least by 10% mark, the audience knows both the hero and also have some idea about the direction of the movie so I would say the screenplay was sectioned in the worst way possible. Now back the whole dinosaur thing... really? A flying dinosaur???? I would replace the whole dinosaur thing with a revived mummy escaped from the museum causing trouble, I guess that would be more appealing to the audience. Anyways, there is absolutely no connection between the hero and the dinosaur anytime sooner than 50% mark and in a good screenplay, the hero should at least hear about the dino at 10% mark. 10% to 50% is a huge gap and I wonder how Lub Besson even considered making a movie based on such a bad screenplay nevertheless an insanely ridiculous plot not even worthy of a children's TV movie. I don't know how the movie is going to resolve as I never finished it but I watched it enough to say that the movie is insanely bad and unwatchable. Sometime i chose an actor or director and watch his movies, probably because I liked a work of him so it was Luc Besson's time. He showed some talent but never got it right and never delivered a descent movie, his movies are often produced very well but grossly fail in plot and screenplay. I know he is French and European standards are different that Hollywood's, Europeans tend to make more boring intellectual unresolved movies but when it comes to Hollywood imitations , I expect Hollywood standards. Great disappointment!
