Review: creative instincts 
Sentiment: positive

Review: one of those decades-spanning historical epics that strives to be intimate and socially encompassing but fails to do justice to either effort in three hours of screen time . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: fails as a dystopian movie , as a retooling of fahrenheit 451 , and even as a rip-off of the matrix . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: by a script that assumes you are n't very bright 
Sentiment: negative


Review: than this long-on-the-shelf , point-and-shoot exercise in gimmicky crime drama