Hollywood Watch

quot;Poison, Poison Ivy,quot; she introduces herself like Bond and adds, quot;I have some wild oats to sow,quot; taking over what was once a male preserve. quot;I8217;m a lover, not a fighter,quot; she goes on seductively. Similarly, Mr Freeze also has a few good parries and thrusts. Beginning with quot;The Iceman cometh,quot; and ending with quot;Freeze in hell, Batman,quot; the inherent contradiction works.

What doesn8217;t is the wafer-thin story. It is unable to sustain. What begins as a galactic encounter later comes down to earth, not figuratively though, and our fly-by-night heroes do their thing but most unconvincingly. The visuals are good and the sets colossal, but it hardly makes up for the action which at no time rises above the mediocre. What8217;s worse is it drags on for two whole hours. Talk about flogging a dead bat, relentlessly.