A good semi documentary movie

Rating: 5/10 (16 January 2013)

I would not rate this anywhere near the cream of the best movies that came out in 2012.
Hearing about it, i was truly expecting a great and really compelling story, great twits, and superb acting.
What i found, was a movie just like "The Dish" with Sam Neil. A good story, but really predictable. Really standard storytelling, and nothing exciting at all.
And without the named actors, these movies would only be a documentary re-enactment on discovery or history channel.
I saw no feats of great acting in this movie. The story, even if completely true, had nothing but the starting hook to keep me into it. And watching the rest of the movie, was just to see how the story played out, hoping for some good twists to the story. There were no real points where i was hanging on the edge of my seat, as such a movie idea should have made me do. Nothing.
No action, no thrill, no comedy, no anything but a straight story.
The characters were very superficial, i had no feeling with any of them at all through the movie. To just make this movie worth re-watching, they would have needed to go much much deeper into the characters. Because as they are now, they are just faces in a motion picture. Nothing more.
The Dish had better and deeper characters than this one, and it didn't have anything else but named actors and a true story.
I would even watch the dish again, because i get a ton more feeling from the characters being played in that movie.
Don't get me wrong, i love most of Ben Afflec's movies, but in this one, he was just a blank character to me. And i know he could have done a lot better acting than this.
All too predictable, all too standard.
Worth watching once, if you are bored. But not again, ever. It's not that it sucks that bad, it's just purely story driven, and the story is really predictable.