I was looking forward to this Movie, but alarm bells went off the moment it started. The Direction is shocking and it doesn't matter how good an actor you are if the director is poor you are going to come over as the worst actor ever. I like Kelsey Grammer and Kellen Lutz but both don't come out of this very well, it says a lot when the big hairy Australian comedy relief character comes out of it better than the actors you paid the big money too. The special effects were half decent and spiders were quite scary and it seems the movie had a decent budget. They just let it go horribly wrong. The movie was primarily funded by Australia and China so I would have said that Russell Mulcahy would have been an ideal Director choice. They chose someone else and this is the end result. What should have been a 7/10 is actually a 5. Disappointing.

It did take a while for me to watch 'Guardians of the Tomb' and was really not sure whether to do so. The trailer and advertising looking absolutely terrible, enough to make one giving the film a wide berth, but 'Guardians of the Tomb' happened to be the film choice for the family/friend film night (being a massive film fan of all genres old and new missing it was out of the question) and was watched with low expectations felt by all prior.

'Guardians of the Tomb' did turn out to be as bad as the advertising made it look and as has been said about it. It has often been cited as one of the worst films of 2018 and it's on my personal worst films list. It completely fails to be cheesy fun or a mild diversion, as was clearly intended. Watched 'Guardians of the Tomb' bearing that in mind and judging it from that standpoint, being someone who judges a film for what it is trying to do and be and the film is a failure when it fails to achieve its goal, something that in my mind 'Guardians of the Tomb' does.

Only two decent things here. One is the scenery, which is pleasing on the eyes and has atmosphere.

The other, and the best thing about the film, is Kelsey Grammer (have always loved him in 'Cheers', his voice work and especially 'Frasier', though he does done quite a lot of bad films in recent years) giving his absolute all and having a blast. Not subtle at all by all means, but he is the one aspect where the film showed signs of trying.

Rest of the acting is awful. As chronically dull as Kellen Lutz is, it is the insufferably annoying Bingbing Li who wins the dubious award of worst performances. The cast are saddled with characters that are never interesting or endearing, which makes it difficult forgive that they are every archetype in the genre 'Guardians of the Tomb' falls into, and a script that goes well overboard on the cheese factor.

Furthermore, that the story in 'Guardians of the Tomb' has not one original thought, and instead a mix of done to death genre tropes, is the least of that component's problems. More problematic are that there are no thrills, fun or suspense to be had. It is too excessively predictable and perfunctory in pace to be thrilling, far too intelligence-insultingly dumb and muddled with too many ideas handled vaguely to be fun and with never a sense of anything at stake or menacing threat to be suspenseful. It doesn't even look good, with a direct to video-like look similar to films made for the SyFy channel, with special effects that would look out of date 20+ years ago.

Concluding, very poor. 2/10 Bethany Cox

Biotech CEO Mason (Kelsey Grammer) is searching for a missing exploration party in Western China attempting to locate a legendary cave and possible elixir to extend life. The party includes Gary (Shane Jacobson) who has his eye on Milly (Stef Dawson) who has her eye on Jack (Kellan Lutz) who has his eye on Jia (Bingbing Li)....Oh these Chinese films, full of glances and no advances.

They go into a cave and find a group of mutant swarming spiders from Australia The storm effects were Asylum grade. Not as good as "Kung Fu Yoga."

Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity...just lots of ugly spiders.