The Broken Key

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I had to give up watching this film after 15 minutes, simply because it was impossible to follow what was going on due to the high volume of the music, which was more in the fore ground than the back ground.

After 2hrs of watching this movie, I've discovered that the "Secret for eternal life on Earth" is to not watch this movie! While the CGI is plentiful, the plot is non-existent. It's like they tried to commingle the 'The Celestine Prophecy' with 'The Da Vinci Code' and ended up with mud pie... it's a great big mess of nothing. You can't even look to the dialogue for help, because at times it doesn't even appear to be coming from the actor's lips, giving the impression the movie is dubbed, which it isn't. If you absolutely have to watch this film, curl up with a good book and let it play in the background. At least then you will have done something worthwhile with your time, otherwise, you can get more entertainment out of watching 'The Tigger Movie'.

Wow this is painful. I thought the movie was dubbed in English at first, because the voice acting is so stiff and monotone. The music is so obnoxious. It's so overdramatic and it often overpowers the dialogue. The story is rather disjointed, I'm hoping it was more due to poor editing, but I doubt it. Maybe they were trying to go for some kind of experimental style? I'm giving it a two as the production value for the sets and special effects were high. Unfortunately it just can't make up for the rest.

Never have so many great actors been so betrayed as by this insipid, plotless movie.

Actually it's not so bad as the other reviewers say. The narrative plots are interesting and there is a high level cast. I think the idea of creating a futuristic atmosphere in the fascinating and mysterious Turin, which hosts many visual cues here enhanced by the director, is beautiful. I read that this film has a very low budget... reaching this level without the big Hollywood budgets is a great goal.

Well, I feel somewhat heroic in the fact that I lasted longer than some but, as with all the other realistic reviews, this was truly horrendous, and I love movies like Sharknado, so I don't exactly have high standards. The acting was terrible, the script was complete nonsense, the music destroyed almost everything, and it just made no sense. Normally, I would add something like, "Watch it for the laughs", but it was not even possible to laugh at how terrible it was; it was just that bad.

Great cast in this italian sci-fi movie that uses Turin as background for a misterious and breathtaking story. The city is naturally a perfect location and the acting is good thanks to actors such as Rutger Hauer and Michael Madsen

Endless. An agony to watch. A patchwork quilt screenplay requires one character after another to help further a plot about ancient Egyptian cults and Turin, Italy in the year 2030. For an incomprehensible 2 hours. Archeologist Andrea Coco looks miserable throughout while searching through the cool character actors (Rutger Hauer, Michael Madsen, Geraldine Chaplin, Christopher Lambert) on the movie's guest list. And the whole cast is dubbed with wretchedly mixed sound. The insistent, pompous scoring doesn't help, and as events take place, there is less and less suspense to any of it. The plot is enough to confuse/bore even hardened followers of this genre. Best thing to do, in order to amuse oneself during the movie's self-important exposition: say the movie's title out loud, wait several seconds, then let out an enormous wet bottom-burp strong enough to send ripples through both butt cheeks. Then do it again.

It's not easy find in the italian movie landscape a Sci-Fi movie, just only for this, this film should be watched and supported, but this movie astonish also for his good workmanship. In a world where the belief that millionaires budgets are needed to make this type of film The Broken Key is the proof that it's not true. The Vfx are made good, the photograpy remember other film of the same genre like Blade Runner and the Cast is full of talented Hollywood stars like Rutger Hauer, Michael Madsen and Christopher Lambert.