Slow and pretentious

Rating: 2/10 (7 September 2007)

Well, I was confused of what was going on during the first twenty minutes and kept waiting for the picture to "start." After the picture got to the main part of the story (which seemed to take forever) I began to realize that this movie took itself a little too seriously. There were far too many overly dramatic closeups with pretentious music . The editing was unnecessarily quick but the movie still moved at a snail's pace. Finally, after suffering through almost two hours the ending proved to be totally unsatisfying and unbelievable (the evil Crowe character, who was totally without any redemption throughout the entire film changed to a "good" guy almost instantaneously).