I saw "Jinn", starring Dominic Rains-Captain America: The Winter Soldier, General Hospital_t.v.; Serinda Swan-Graceland_t.v., Breakout Kings_t.v.; Ray Park-Snake Eyes in the G.I.Joe movies, Darth Maul in Star Wars:Episode 1-The Phantom Menace; William Atherton-The Girl Next Door, Die Hard 1&2 and Faran Tahir-Elysium, Iron Man.
This movie is a jumbled mess that is based on an Eastern legend. The narrator says something to the effect of, "In the beginning, God created three things: Man out of clay, Angels out of light and Jinn out of fire." Jinn are evil demon-like creatures. The movie starts with a fight between a man and a Jinn around 1900, with the man winning. The Jinn, being a sore loser, says that he will kill every member in the man's family for eternity-I don't know why he couldn't just kill the man right then and be done with it. Then, the story jumps to the present time-line where Dominic is the current descendant from that man and Serinda is his wife. Ray shows up on their doorstep bearing a gift that informs Dominic of the family curse-just in time, too, because the Jinn decides to attack right about then. William plays a priest that works with Ray and Faran plays a man in a mental ward that just might have some answers- Yep, it's always the crazy ones that save the day. The effects are alright but the story is not consistent;one time a sacred knife works and other times it doesn't. Sometimes, the Jinn shows fantastic powers and other times, it's like he forgot he had them. It just has lots of loop holes. There is a scene after the end credits, so if you sit through the whole movie, you might as well see it, and the best surprise? They announce at the end-sort of like they do in the James Bond movies-"Jinn Will Return"; Boy, do they have some high hopes. One of the reasons I went to see it in the first place was because of Ray Park-I'm a big fan of his-and he does get to show off his martial arts skills, although it is against some drugged-out mental patients that do not put up much of a fight. It's rated "PG-13" for violence and terror and has a running time of 1 hour & 37 minutes. It's not one that I would buy on DVD. I don't think I would even rent it, either. If you really want to see it, wait until it comes to cable.
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