In a story that looks more exciting and powerful, as he spoke of a man named Jack Bruno, a taxi driver in Las Vegas. Jack takes an old adventure when he meets Sarah and Seth, two young men who live outside the earth and possess supernatural powers. Jack discovers that eventually he has to get the help of an UFO expert to protect both young men from the clutches of the organization that wants to use children for many destructive plans.
The planet-hopping children have special talents -- telekinesis, telepathy etc. -- although it is the high-wattage lovability of Mr. Rock that's the real superpower on display here.
It's pacy all right, but glib and uninvolving for grown-ups, though perhaps furnished with enough in the way of spaceships, lasers and digital explosions to pacify undemanding little 'uns of an afternoon.
Boring and unoriginal, this new version might have some fancy visuals and a loud soundtrack but they're just a smokescreen for how boring and lifeless the film is.
Race to Witch Mountain is pretty standard kiddie fare: Cute, precocious children are protected by a world-weary, wisecracking father figure and one-liners abound.
While the shootouts and sprinting manage to entertain in a decidedly PG fashion, Fickman's little touches stuffed into the corners of the frame lend Race the personality it dearly needs.
