Seeing as how The Rock has never headlined a movie before, they did a good job of keeping his dialogue short. It sounded a little odd that almost everyone else had an accent, and he just sounded like The Rock. Sort of an unintentional piece of comedy throughout. And speaking of comedy, they threw in a puny little sidekick for him that was nothing but comedy. For a while it was funny, but they kept going back to him over and over again, and after a while it got to be too much.

There wasn't enough seriousness in the movie to make you feel for any of the characters. I rooted for The Rock because I'm a WWF fan. I rooted for Kelly Hu because frankly she looked pretty damned hot in the film. Not wearing much clothing throughout the film was certainly helpful in keeping my attention. But the villain wasn't scary, either by his looks or his actions. He didn't do anything that made me think that anyone should be afraid of him, and he looked too skinny to just by physically imposing. The rest of the cast was just sort of there to help The Rock along.

I did enjoy the fight scenes a lot. While other than a large sandstorm there wasn't a lot of big special effects, the director did put The Rock's background as a wrestler to good use by having him do a lot of action sequences. His fight scenes with Michael Clarke Duncan and Steven Brand were pretty entertaining. And during the movie we did get to see a couple of headbutts, a body slam and at one point, The People's Eyebrow, so that was fun. The movie was short enough that there wasn't a whole lot of down time. Most of the time it just kept moving right along, heading to the inevitable finale. The story wasn't too involved and you knew exactly how it was all going to end, so it's more eye candy than anything else.

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