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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island - 2 1/2 stars out of 5 stars


Being a fan of Dwayne"The Rock" Johnson i had to check it out.This film is a sequel to a film I hadn't seen,nor was Rock in.Well,it's toss up 2 1/2 stars.Released in 2012 and running 94 minutes its a FX feast with little meat of a story. Loosely based on a few of Jules Verne's  novels,VERY loosely,the rock is really the only reason to see this flick and the FX,if your so inclined.Trailer follows the pix and a IMDB summary is below

The 17-year-old Sean Anderson receives a coded signal and his stepfather Hank helps him to decipher the message. They find that Sean's grandfather Alexander Anderson has found the mysterious island in the Pacific described by Jules Verne and two other writers in their novels. The stubborn Sean wants to travel to the coordinates and Hank decides to buy the tickets and travel with the teenager to a small island nearby the location. They rent an old helicopter owned by the locals Gabato and his teenage daughter Kailani and the group heads to the unknown spot. Along their journey, they cross a hurricane and crash in the island. They find a beautiful and dangerous place, surrounded by forests, volcanoes with lava of gold and menacing life forms. The meet also the old Alexander and Hank discovers that the island is sinking. Now their only chance to survive is to find the legendary Nautilus. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3253510425/

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