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The Seven Adventures of Sinbad Movie Review–And The Asylum Goes For Broke

July 14th, 2010 in Action, Adventure, DVD, Fantasy, Movies, Reviews -

The Asylum, man…they must have reinforced pants inseams to hold the sheer brass ones required to put out stuff like The Seven Adventures of Sinbad. They sent me a copy to review, and once again, it’s a doozy in the grandest Asylum tradition.

The Seven Adventures of Sinbad follows Sinbad, now a corporate magnate in the early twenty-first century, who discovers that one day an oil tanker of his has gone missing.  When he goes out to investigate, he discovers that there’s a lot more going on than he expected.  And now, he’s got seven things to do in order to save the world from a massive disaster.

The big problem is that, frankly, I’m having a hard time pinning down just what those things are, or what the giant disaster is.  It seems to be something revolving around a volcano, but this script is just such a disaster that I’m abjectly butt-lost.  In all honesty, I was abjectly butt-lost about half an hour into this bilge and I’m still not sure just what the hell happened.  Thankfully, the last half-hour or so will actually SHOW the disaster in question, thus removing all doubt about what it is once and for

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