Great Special Effects .... Awful Acting and Directing

Rating: 4/10 (19 July 2010)

The good thing about this film, and it is possibly the ONLY good thing, is the CGI. The special effects are among the most incredible seen in film, however that alone does not rescue it. At 158minutes it is much too long and the so called emotional element misses the mark completely. There are some really awful moments where I suppose we are expected to care? The lead actor is just dire and Woody Harleson's character is just a stupid edition to all the other characters we quickly could not care less about. The story could have been good but the director just seemed to mess it up at every point and the acting was just terrible throughout.
One can only wonder what Spielberg would have done with the budget that this film had?