Disappointed

Rating: 2/10 (29 December 2007)

While the ending of the movie was interesting, I thought in general, this was a much over-hyped movie and at times very, very dull. The acting was annoyingly melodramatic and unnecessarily intense at times. The use of flash-forwards and flash backs was confusing, and apparently used to keep the audience awake. Characters move in and out of the story so quickly, it is difficult to keep everyone straight. On the positive side, the costumes were lovely and the setting of the movie was gorgeous. The aging of the 13 year old writer to the older author was also well done. On the whole, however, I was very disappointed by this movie and would not recommend seeing it.