a5c7b9f00b A detective of the paranormal slowly unravels mysterious events with deadly results. Investigating a supernatural force, Edward Carnby finds himself on the toughest case of his career. With an archaeologist helping him to trace his findings back through time for centuries, the mystery only gets more complicated the further they delve into it. This film is heavily underrated. Uwe Boll&#39;s reputationa bad director is highly undeserved. He&#39;s quite competent. The only thing I didn&#39;t like was the long prologue.<br/><br/>The rest was fairly good and original, and far from the Hollywood crap fest we are so used at seeing.<br/><br/>It&#39;s a different kinda film, and that is clear from the first image.<br/><br/>We are pulled into the action through Carnby, the main character, and from then on the action never let up. The creatures are scary, even though this isn&#39;t a horror movie. We sense them even when we don&#39;t see them, and that&#39;s rare in a film. People claiming Boll can&#39;t do the power of suggestion are very wrong.<br/><br/>As most good films it should have lasted about half an hour longer, though.<br/><br/>But I liked it. I will definitely see Boll&#39;s next movie, Bloodrayne. Spoilers ahead, but does it really matter? Have you ever read a movie review composed entirely of questions? Could this be it? Why did an ancient civilization bury artifacts all over the world? Why is this question never answered? Why was the opening text crawl incoherent? Why would a nun (she sure seemed nice!) hand over 20 orphans to a madman? Has there always been a gold mine in downtown Vancouver? Why does one of the gold mine&#39;s shafts exit in the front yard of an orphanage? Why does Tara Reid&#39;s character suddenly show up at Christian Slater&#39;s apartment for sex? (Or did I just answer my own question?) Why would even a non-archaeologist bang open an obviously valuable solid gold chest with a sledgehammer? Why would modern computers still display green pre-Tron-era grid outlines of objects, complete with little &quot;bleeps&quot;? And must all movie explosive timers have digital displays? Why doesn&#39;t ANYTHING in this movie make any sense? Even Boll seems to lose interestthe story unravels. By that time, the supernatural cliches, plot inconsistencies, dead ends and red herrings have piled up so high you can barely see the screen.
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