for the third time this year come a movie that on paper sound like good ol fashion campy nazi fun and and then turn out to be something quite a bit different than it premise and turn it in direction it really doesn not need to go . this one come way of joel schumacher and the world most uneven and undependable filmmaker and and this be probably the film that reflect that the most represent uneven and undependable . there a good idea and a good story here and but instead schumacher actually go the uwe boll route ( and you would think he would know good . ) and just add thing that do not make sense . like dialog about iraq . and voice over narration . that repeat itself . it take a good twenty minute before anything that happen really becomes clear . first we get a completely unnecessary prologue of the nazi come to a german immigrant farmhouse in the u that seem more like a chance for schumacher to play around with sin city like neo noir lighting and extreme contrast black and white effect . this prologue would help immensely for the understanding of what happen in the rest of the movie if it weren not for the fact that it all explain later and again and by dialog and in a much more succinct and interesting fashion . then we get this completely unnecessary transition where our hero and a physician and be somehow involve with some violent bloody something or another that involve a man dying of blood lose and some woman wigging out . what this have to do with the story be establish that he a physician . which he then explain later in dialog and in a much more succinct and interesting fashion . then we get this bitter argument between our hero the physician and his father over his brother and who have be miss for two year and and how much his father appreciate the brother more for go to iraq and be a hero . which be explain later in dialog and in a much more succinct and interesting fashion . finally in the middle of a completely unnecessary dream sequence that explain the brother disappearance ( something that explain later in dialog and in a much more succinct and interesting fashion ) and brother guy return and drags physician boy off to the middle of the wood to some farmhouse populate by weird people and and they go around bust stuff up and threaten the people life and yell at each other and what the heck be go on . at roughly this point the movie finally become interesting in a what be happen here and and who be the badguy and and what be do . sort of way until it finally get establish that the farm people be the never age caretaker of the nazi necromancer from scene one and who have be keep him from break out into the world and become more powerful than we can possibly imagine and only tonight and on a lunar eclipse and he be go to make one last bid to take over the world . finally . i know this movie be go somewhere . and from there it some pretty decent action horror and albeit tone deaf . if there anything go for this movie and it be that the action be relentless and very few character really get a moment to breathe . otherwise it hard to really differentiate when be suppose to be scar and excite and thrill and or really feel much of anything because nothing really slow down long enough to build a sense of tension or drama in the scene . one scene become another in rapid succession and it pretty easy to let the movie charge ahead at it own expense while decide not to really care yourself . meanwhile the dialog be absolutely ridiculous and gratuitous and all of this our father love you more . you do not know what happen to me in iraq . you do not understand what it like be hold in thrall by a nazi necromancer . who the real victim here . type of stuff that would be poignant character development in a slow building drama where character finally let themselves go over a cup of tea or something and but be absurd to be shout at each other while be chase down by a 100 year old guy with a face he keep peel off and an eye grow out of his forehead . it not often this happen and but and this movie should be remake immediately . there be some really nice idea that could make for a very entertaining and interesting movie if you cut the iraq stuff and the nazi stuff and the family drama stuff and and actually let some mystery and suspense build by get character to discover thing instead of have everything explain to you in flat and wooden dialog . worse be when and at the end and a bit of voice over repeat what a character state less than a minute before hand and show indeed one of those pesky and annoy horror movie motif where apparently the director or producer or maybe the studio or something decide that the audience wasn not intelligent enough to get the point ( plus and it lead the way to a possible sequel and which be predictable ) . honestly and it a conceptual misfire . somebody should grab this idea and and with a bit more creativity and an actual plot structure and make a good movie out of it . polarisdib .