Saturday, June 5, 2010

Ba'al: the Storm God (2008)

A dying evil archaeologist steals ancient scrolls and searches for four amulets which he plans to use to harness the power of Ba'al the storm god. Enlisting the help of two other archaeologists who don't know what's going on, our evil doctor travels the world digging up the amulets which ignites a storm and the face of Ba'al in the sky. This tips off our innocent archaeologists that something is wrong.

There is also a rogue meteorologist previously banned from a military base who now must work with them again to solve the problem of the massive storms that keep popping up in the stratosphere.

The movie features one of those scenes where in the midst of trying to solve an insurmountable problem one of the characters suddenly gets an idea based on one word uttered by another character. "Wait a minute- what did you just say?.... That's it! That just might be the answer. What if we...."

The silliest thing about this movie is that the statue of Ba'al tips over on a security guard who is trying to stop a thief from stealing the scrolls. There is no explanation for the massive statue to topple onto the guard except that if it didn't, nothing else in the movie could have happened.

Also why has no one noticed or tried to push the buttons on the front of Ba'al? Surely in all the years it has existed, someone has wanted to see what would happen. And why does the younger archaeologist kneel in front of the statue to remove the artifacts when moments before a large lance came out of the center of it and skewered someone? He's positioned so that if it comes out again, it's going right through his head.

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