Review – 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea

So this is supposed to be 1.5 times as good as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea? It actually turns out to be around 30,000 times worse. In this brain-dead modernization of Jules Verne’s classic tale, Captain Nemo (Sean Lawlor) is out to destroy all surface-dwelling life on earth and start everything over in Atlantis. To complete his evil scheme, he needs giant air bubble technology developed by a Navy officer (Lorenzo Lamas, who looks like he should switch to Just for Men Who Aren’t Fooling Anyone if he hasn’t already). Everyone ends up upstaged by bad CGI giant robot squid. Usually one must turn to SyFy for this kind of experience, but for some reason this showed on one of the Starz/Encores. See if desperate