Dull, Drab, Dreary, Dire.

Rating: 1/10 (4 January 2014)

IMDb reviews never cease to astound me, great films get low scores, terrible films get great scores - guess which one this is?
About Time is bland, pointless, and just sits there on screen doing absolutely nothing. There's nothing involving about the plot, no characters you give a toss about, and it's long, long, long.
The entire premise of the time travel idea is under-used and almost seems like an afterthought for the movie. The ginger leading man is also mildly irritating and not much fun to look at, his plum-in-the-mouth dialect being representative of the kind of people in England who are generally extremely annoying too (to you Americans reading this, almost no normal person in the UK speaks like that - just the over- privileged).
True, I'm no fan of romcoms, but many are sufferable if they at least manage to hold your attention for their under 90 minutes running time. But 123 minutes of blandness? I'm afraid not. I just sat there wondering when something was going to happen.....and then the yawns set in.
Its so unsettling that so many people here have given this drab grey shade of a movie ten stars, and calling it the "best film you've ever seen" c'mon..? Honestly people, can you just not make statements like that on here anymore? I mean please? You really are contributing nothing as it shows just how few films you've ever seen. The title however for the film is actually brilliant, because when it finally dragged to the end I cheered out loud.... "About Time!"