Pretentious as hell...

Rating: 3/10 (10 January 2017)

My expectations were sky-high. Partly cause I loved both Prisoners and Sicario and also cause of other people's reviews of this film. But boy, was I disappointed. I really wanted to like this film but could never get into the right mood of suspense and excitement. Instead I found ridiculously pretentious and boring right from the start. I could feel that many people in the theater felt the same, lots of sighs and laughter in the wrong places. The story is very vague in many places and is often cut off in a very irritating way. The film is obviously aiming for something of higher quality than for example Independence day but falls flat because it lacks both substance and feeling. This is not even close to a masterpiece like 2001. The film tries to communicate some message about communication, world peace, time, meaning of life, and how it's all connected or something but ends up a mess. The two main characters were very cliché and kept irritating me throughout the film. They were the two chosen one's who understand everything no one else does and ends up saving the world.