A boring movie

I don't get it... No disrespect but when you have Superman, Spider-man, Batman or the X-men why would you bother with the Rocketeer to make a comic-book adaptation ?!? Even though, nowadays, super-heroes are immensely popular and big business in the box-office, they actually made some of those also in the 90's but they always flopped. Somehow, instead of focusing on the popular characters I mentioned before, they preferred to make movies with Spawn, Judge Dredd, the Shadow or the Phantom. Again, I have nothing against those guys but since the mainstream audience is not familiar with those, unless you make a really amazing flick, there is a pretty good chance they will flop (which happened in all those cases). Anyway, Roger Ebert loved this movie but I was just bored during the whole thing. I guess I wasn't the only one because after this introduction to the Rocketeer, he never came back... It is one of the very few times I really disagree with the great Roger but I guess we don’t have to agree every time around. According to him, it was a great depiction of that time period, a fun and goofy action flick. Personally, I thought it was seriously tedious. Even the lovely Jennifer Connelly didn't manage to make it more interesting but since she was just the love interest, I couldn't expect much from her. To conclude, it is a really rather average flick and it is not really worth a look, even if you love the genre.

5/10