Red Sands

*1/2 – A movie with a title like “Red Sands” should have at least some rouge-colored sand-like material in it. While it had loads of sand and the occasional red thing, it did not have any actual red sand. Strike one. Also, a movie that is supposedly about ‘genies’ (apparently from the Arabic word ‘djinn’) in the deserts of Afghanistan infiltrating an American military operation and slaughtering it’s troops one-by-one should at least have things occurring at certain times. This movie, as far as I can recall, had pretty much nothing happen at all points in it. Strike two. In addition, a movie that contains actors should also contain acting. This movie had a bunch of what I assume are actors, but none of them seemed to even be attempting to act. Strike three. In summation, I did not like this movie. It was boring and stupid and very hard to watch with crummy special effects and some of the worst dialogue this side of a Coleman Francis film. One thing I did learn from it, though, is that unlike what Disney’s “Aladdin” would have us believe, genies are actual evil spirits bent on the destruction of humanity. Huh.