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Created Dec 02, 2010 10:29PM PST • Edited Dec 04, 2010 02:03AM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Barely OK 2.0

   The sorcerer’s apprentice? More like Harry Potter’s apprentice – or more accurately – the magical British fable’s weak American imitation. Hollywood heavies Bruckheimer, Turtletaub and Cage occasionally produce cheerfully entertaining hokum. This isn’t one of those times.

   As an airplane movie, OK. Not trapped in a flying metal tube? Pass.

4. Acting

   OK 2.5

   Performed by a cast of lesser lights and/or lesser performances:

   • Lesser Nic Cage, if there is such a thing.
   • Jay Baruchel, the lesser Shia LaBeouf.
   • Lesser Alfred Molina, sadly.
   • Lesser Monica Bellucci, simply because she’s not on screen enough. More of her please. Where’s a sorcerer when you need one?

5. Male Stars OK 2.5

6. Female Stars Good 3.0

7. Female Costars OK 2.5

8. Male Costars OK 2.5

10. Film

    Barely OK 2.0

    Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, director Jon Turtletaub and exec producer/star Nic Cage can’t recapture the lighthearted magic they bottled in National Treasure and National Treasure: The Book of Secrets. These guys don’t give up however. They just keep on coming. Thus this failed Hollywood concoction will fade away when their next machine production premieres. No sorcery required.

11. Direction Barely OK 2.0

12. Play Pretty Bad 1.5

13. Music OK 2.5

14. Visuals OK 2.5
15. Content

16. Edge

    Tame 1.5

17. Sex Innocent 1.3

18. Violence Fierce 1.6

19. Rudeness Polite 1.5

21. Reality

    Supernatural 3.9

22. Circumstantial Supernatural 3.4

23. Biological Fantasy 5.0

24. Physical Supernatural 3.3