sky captain be possibly the best awful movie i have see in a long while . rife with amazing cg and special effect and stud with an a list cast ( jude law and gwyneth paltrow and angelina jolie and the infinitely likable giovanni ribisi ) and race along with an overused but indiana jones esquire storyline and this should have be a great movie to watch . should have be the key term here and of course . jude law play joe the sky captain with a dash accent and plenty of over the shoulder and heart melting smirk and but you can not make something out of nothing and and even his flippant delivery and boyish good look can not save the movie stone dialogue . ( if he have slap giovanni ribisi on the back and say and good boy and dex and just one more time and i might have barf all over the guy in front of me . ) gwyneth paltrow and a polly perkins and be nothing less than nerve grating . her nasal whining and not quite sarcastic comment get old in the first ten minute of the movie . perhaps she put too much effort into play the stereotypical 30 comic book heroine who know . i expect more from her . an example of how a similar character be play ( and play well ) be in the late 90 flick the phantom and star kristy swanson and billy zane . rent the movie and you will know what i mean . giovanni ribisi and angelina jolie be the save grace in the film . ( angelina jolie be incredibly hot in that eyepatch . i will admit it . ) in just a few short scene and both actor somehow manage to rise above the tired material and deliver a more riveting performance than their dry and two dimensional castmates . the plot and steady story progression be old and boring and and basically just a monotonous combination of every good scene from an action movie in the past thirty year . the pace be rapid fire in the first half of the movie and and a snail pace in the second and give the audience enough time not only to guess the eventual conclusion of the film and but to figure out who the key villain be as well . the pairing be rather clichéd and also polly perkins and sky captain apparently reunite after several year of separation from a bitterly end romance and and their story isn not so much charming and eclectic a it be annoy and mismatch . when they finally come to term with their mutual feeling towards the end of the film and nobody surprise and and nobody really care either . prop to the director for appreciate bai ling enough to dress her in skintight vinyl for the entirety of the film and and also for the intriguing sepia tone that serve a coloration throughout . but sky captain and despite have all the essential element of be a great movie and fall flat on it face . not even worth the $ 2 . 75 i pay to get into the theater .