Ancient Ones Review



   
     Like many viewers of this movie, I walked into the theater hoping for something new. Something different. Something crazy and unexpected. Unfortunately, this was not the case. Ancient Ones is just one more film about fork-wielding, dragon-riding cabbage people to add to the already mountainous pile. Cliche and, just like all the others, incredibly boring. I genuinely wonder when Hollywood will finally stop beating this dead horse of a genre and move on to something fresh.

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