Film Review: 7 Guardians of the Tomb
Scientists explore an ancient tomb full of spiders in this silly Asian horror movie.
So, there's this previously unexcavated Asian burial site that contains the mummy of a centuries-old emperor and it's full of creepy spiders that scare, well, people who are scared of spiders. That's pretty much the plot of 7 Guardians of the Tomb.
A small team of mostly Western archeologists is dispatched to check out the site, including Mason (longtime “Frasier” star Kelsey Grammer), who specializes in sounding like a smart guy, and Jack Ridley (Kellan Lutz), who's cute and was an adorable werewolf in the Twilight movies. Popular Chinese star Li Bingbing (Transformers: Age of Extinction) is also aboard.
Despite the fact that 7 Guardians of the Tomb is being promoted as the largest Chinese-Australian film to date, it's incredibly dumb and tedious. But there are spiders, lots of them: Arachnophobes who hated The Giant Spider Invasion (1975), Kingdom of the Spiders (1977), Eight-Legged Freaks (2002) and their ilk should probably stay home. Everyone else will find a dull, pointless film. Let the buyer beware.
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