terrible

Rating: 1/10 (31 October 2009)

I would have never bothered watching it,since I don't care for Oliver Stone movies since U-Turn, which I think is his best work. But the opinions here on IMDb were so polarized, I couldn't resist. So I did watch it. And what a waste of time it was. Oliver Stone is like Michael Moore without humour. They both know how to lie and I can't figure out why. The acting is mediocre, the Irish accents make no sense and Hopkins goes on your nerves. I also don't understand why Directors chose narration, which is usually considered a faux pas in film-making and hardly ever works. At least with Gladiator you knew it to be fictitious. Here, you don't know what to believe ( like JFK ), so why bother if it's not entertaining.