Alone In The Dark

Another movie based on a video game I've never played, this in the Resident Evil vein. There actually is a plot on this one, some unexplained mysteries surrounding the main character and his fellow people from an orphanage from when he was a kid, all connected up with some old Indian tribe from 10,000 years ago and the secrets they decided to lock away for the good of the world. Along the way our hero goes from digging up the usual ancient artifacts to encountering super-human mind-controlled people to finally meeting the vicious creatures that he local government agency in charge of fighting the supernatural has been hunting.

Not too bad; some action, the minimum required plot to hold things together, weird beats killing things. Standard matinee' fare, with just one plo hole at the end, though to be fare it's a type of flaw in logic that a lot of movies and TV series are guilty of. To see my small gripe read on, thoughj be warned of some possible spoilage.

I'll put it this way. You're an Indian tribe from 10,000 myears ago and you want to seal something up forever. Why put a door on the place much less a lock that can be unlocked? Why not just drop a stone block over the entrance and be done with it (the way the Aancient Egyptians sealed off their pyramids)? Or at the least smach the lock to itsy bitsy pieces then throw it in a forge (if the lock is made out of forged gold then they had something hot enough to melt it). Or, assuming you used a gate to be able to pull out a bad nasty from time to time before sealing it back up, wouldn't it be nice to be able to lock it up again, instead of watching the key go up into the ceiling with the main gate where you can't possibly get to the key to lock the place up again.

Okay, fast forward to the scientists who's been searrching 22 years for the pieces of the keye to unlock the metal door put into the stone wall buy Indians some 10,000 myears ago. A few possibilities come to mind for this guy. You can A) use dynamite, B) use a cutting torch, C) pick the lock,, or even D) if some old Indian could use his axe to chisel his way into solid stone to place the supports for his gate then I reall think thst modern power tools could get though the rock as well and go around the gate. For that matter, power tools work pretty well against that gate as well.

A pretty stupid chief scientist, I guess. But like I said, a lot of others have made the same error, usually when their imagination lacks and they'd rather it not just be a 10 minute movie.

Small nitpicking aside, this isn't too bad but make sure it's Matinee'. On my Cheesey Scale, I'd give it a Camembare