pretending to be a good movie

Rating: 3/10 (19 September 2007)

I was so wanting to love this movie but the extremely tedious pace and poorly written Wade character, who so obviously should have been written better, destroyed this movie. I'm all for subtlety and a certain degree of ambiguity in characterizations and I prefer it in fact to blunt exposition but this film managed to do blunt exposition that revealed little of interest about his character. It did all this while appearing to subtly reveal a strange kinship between the two that never really materialized in any satisfying fashion. The main characters spent their time grimacing a lot trying to look like they were undergoing some profound exchange but it was just fluff. The acting was terrific but even the great Prince character became dull. No consistency in the characters (specifically Wade and Prince accepted) and a what I thought was the films obvious sense of its own importance overshadowing good storytelling. Terrible leaps of logic expected of the audience in the end when the first part of the film is so pedantically realistic it felt like I was watching the stuff that DIDN'T make it into the most boring reality TV.
A real, REAL disappointment. And worst of all, not entertaining. Even some really terrible pics are at least that.