Entertaining

Rating: 8/10 (14 November 2009)

I didn't go into the theater expecting an intelligent or artistic film. I went in expecting Hollywood clichés. And I got them. What I hadn't expected was the way the CGI gripped me. This film has the best CGI I've ever come across. All in all it was a pretty intense experience, (almost) all 2h 45min of it. Of course, towards the end you know how it'll wind up and are really just waiting for them to get it over with. Too many emotional scenes where, amidst general destruction, the "characters" find time to pause and exchange sobbing and heart-felt banalities to each other. Then again, it is an American film, even if the director is German. My biggest GRIPE is with the fact that the studio (like many other studios) finds the need to post fake reviews on IMDb praising the director, the "character development" and so on. Come on guys. If you're going to spread propaganda, do it with style.