Race to Witch Mountain (2009)
- 2009
- ·PG
- ·98 min
In Las Vegas, the regenerated ex-con Jack Bruno works as taxi driver.
During an UFO Convention at Planet Hollywood, the skeptical Jack picks up Dr.
Alex Friedman, who will present a scientific lecture in the event.
Then he is pressed by two henchmen of his former boss, the criminal Wolff, that wants to talk to him, but Jack does not want to return to the crime life.
Jack fights and gets rid of them; out of the blue, he finds two teenagers on the backseat of his cab.
They tell that they are siblings, Sara and Seth, and they need to travel to a location outside Las Vegas in the middle of nowhere.
Meanwhile the government finds a spacecraft that crashed nearby Las Vegas and is chasing the two aliens; after the investigation of the men of Major Henry Burke, they discover that the two siblings are the aliens.
Jack Bruno, Sara and Seth are chased by Henry Burke's team and by the Syphon, a killer from outer space that has been sent to kill them by the military of their planet that want to invade Earth.
Sara and Seth explain that they traveled to Earth to collect scientific data of an experiment and save Earth from invasion, but they need to return immediately to their planet.
Jack teams up with Dr.
Alex to retrieve their spacecraft in a secret base in the Witch Mountain.
- Actors
- Alexander Ludwig·AnnaSophia Robb·Carla Gugino·Dwayne Johnson
- Directed by
- Andy Fickman
- Genre
- Action·Adventure·Family
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Director
- Andy Fickman
ALMA Awards 2009
- Actor in Film
Like this is one of those movies where not much thought is needed. Race to witch mountain + cspan and it's easy to pay attention to both and miss nothing.
Why would you comically call someone 'Jack Bruno' every time you have dialogue, when you evidently know the the distinction between first and last name, and yours is Sara and you don't do this when speaking to your brother Seth? Far from the worst Disney children action movies - excellent acting from everyone involved indeed - yet far from the more thought-through scripts.
Jack is a Las Vegas taxi driver with a dodgy past who finds himself surprised at chaffeuring two youngsters to a rendezvous with their spaceship, pursued by his crooked ex-colleagues, the massed forces of covert government spooks, and an extrsterrestrial assassin.Dwayne Johnson's good-natured screen presence is ideally suited to reluctant hero Jack in this pleasing action adventure romp with lighr sci-fi overtones.
