NOT dazzled

Rating: 2/10 (26 November 2018)

Trite. Glib. Boring.
And absolutely unoriginal. Hollywood gotta stop taking all these mnemonic tricks (they basically regurgitated Kevin Trudeau's Mega Memory in the exact order with 16 being sweet, 17 being magazine) and hashing out as if some kind of 'revelation'.
See. Sherlock did the exact thing with Memory Palace and it s---- ed big time. I tried to rewatch the movie. And I exactly knew why it didn't jive with me:
-Kevin Space is an astounding actor, yet the way he tried to make a Ivy League professor charismatic superstar was just too trite. Not every professor need to be Hollywood big shot. Tone it down. Sometimes less is more.
-Stupid cliches. Ivy Leagues are filled with nerds and Jonah Hill like beta cucks. Sign. Just stop. Stop. Sooo stereotypical with the whole incely 'woe is me' 'can't get a chick' done to death cliches. GLIB.
And finally,
At the point of mnemonics I had to stop. See a movie makes you believe in the possibility. Both in Sherlock and this stupid one had the protagonists had photographic memory I would absolutely love it. That'd suspend the belief.
That...

THAT would dazzle.
But this one fails on all accounts. Unoriginal.
But no one wants to watch a movie where one makes use of mnemonics like a freshman worksheet handed out on first day to fill it up and make that hack or nifty trick seem some sort of parting of Red Sea.
And do girls come and drool over one in real life? Yawn.... BORING.
Weeks ago I watched Rounders. Now THAT dazzled. That threw the ball totally out of the park.