MAN-THING - REVIEW
"Man Thing"... What WAS I thinking? Here I was picking up a Marvel-approved comic-book monster movie directed by Brett Leonard ( Lawnmower Man ) expecting something a bit like Swamp Thing : kitsch, stupid fun. Perhaps even an underrated, gory action flick? If you haven't guessed yet, I was wrong. Talk about a waste of time... If you call a movie Man Thing and make it all about some giant swamp creature, I would suggest perhaps showing the character? Because otherwise what you're left with is bad actors playing bland secondary characters going back and forth to some swamp faking you out every time, making you think you're going to see something when in fact you're not. You're just not. I mean, I have no problem with big build-ups but this is hardly The Third Man : this sucks. So when you do finally see Man Thing, 10 minutes from the end, why would you even care? The ending of the film should have happened within the first 20 minutes! This is