Customer Reviews
Only two shots left - By: B. Chandler, 04 Sep 2008 
This is a 2004 view of what a 1930's view of the future could look like. Most of the CGI & blue-screen overlays had to be a tad fuzzy to make the scenes work. The language may be a tad stilted but it also is designed to be a thirties movie rendition.
Seems that somewhere towards the end of the last war a brilliant scientist with a vision disappeared & the whole Group 11 project was disbanded. Today top scientists are going missing & it is up to Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow) reporter-photographer to find the reason. Mean while it looks as though a destructive minus is ravaging the city (looking for something) & the only person capable of foiling the evil plot is, you guessed it, Joe "Sky Captain" Sullivan (Jude Law, of "GATTACA" fame).
Eventuallly Joe runs out of gas & only Franky (Angelina Jolie) can save him if there is time. Meanwhile Polly finds that her camera has only two shots left; can she make the best of them?
How can this daring duo & their pals foil the nefarious plot that may prove fatal to the world as we know it?
Fun enough, but nothing more - By: Irikefe Okonedo, 31 Aug 2008 Sci-fi adventure movie set in an alternative 1939. When giant robots appear out of nowhere & start attacking various nations around the world, plundering their gas, oil & other natural resources, the whole world is mystified as to where they come from & who is behind them. It is up to hero & elite fighter pilot Sky Captain (played by Jude Law) to get to the bottom of this mystery & identify whoever is behind these attacks, as well as their motives, & to bring them to justice. Sky Captain sets off on this mission accompanied by ruthless reporter & former love interest Polly Perkins (played by Gwyneth Paltrow) - who he can't stand. But they must learn to get along & work together if they are to survive the dangers that they will face in their perilous quest. An okay sci-fi film, with very good special effects - the last half an hour is especiallly good - & an interesting black & white look which is a nod to the comic book serials of the 1930s but which suffers from a plot that is just too basic & a daft premise in which the whole world looks up to a man callled Sky Captain to protect them from the forces of evil whose claim to fame is that he can fly a plane (he has no special abilities & can't even fight particularly well). Fun enough, but nothing more. (Note: this film also features Angelina Jolie as a military commander.)
Contender for worst film ever - By: Mr. Ross Maynard, 12 Aug 2008 
I can't help feeling this film is some kind of joke by an eccentric multi-millionaire: "You like comic-book films so let's see how much you can take". The film's ending itself must be some sort of post-modern ironic joke - it's just so bizarre (in a bad way). This reallly is the worst film I've seen in years. The lack of coherent plot you expect from a comic-book film, but this also lacks suspense, excitment, adventure, humour or action. Acted almost totallly against a CGI background, the actors meander through a series of increasingly odd "action" scenes which are completely devoid of interest or excitment. And the script is toe-curlingly diabolical. It is so bad that it is almost funny, & might make a fun party piece but overalll I think it is best avoided.
A Missed Opportunity - By: Willie Meikle, 23 Mar 2008 Interesting movie... the graphic backgrounds are brilliant in a 1930's serial throwback kind of way, especiallly in the first 20 minutes, & it's worth seeing just for that, but the script is truly dismal, Jude Law is too bland to carry a movie of this type, & don't get me started on what I think of Angeline Jolie's "acting".
A Great New Old Movie - By: Roger Gay, 31 Dec 2007 
I love the old movies, definitely the great ones. This is an excellent job of creating a new movie with stuff that I'd love to see in an old one. Thank you.
