Forgive Me Movie Gods for Seeing This!!!

Rating: 1/10 (17 December 2007)

The trailer for Atonement had me giddy with excitement I thought I was going to be in for a truly epic love story that spanned time, distance, war, betrayal, but what I got was this anemic, pretentious, non-epic slop!! The movie's final nail in the coffin comes from the incredibly bad ending where the Producers couldn't figure out if they wanted to give the audience a sad ending (not even bittersweet) or a happy one, so they decide to give us BOTH. I just simply hated this film! I place "Atonement" at the top of my "Worst Films of 2007" list! When the end credits rolled, I stood up & shouted "That was crap"!! I still can't believe that this film got any award recognition??? I hated this film! The trailer showed one thing, then when you see the film, it goes into a whole different direction! This wasn't a love story by any means! This was a story about people who lie! That was it!! Norhting more, nothing less! I love when critics have been calling this a "Romance" film!! There wasn't any romance to be found!! I really really hated the main character of Briony Tallis! Come to think about it, none of the characters in "Atonement" were really memorable or had any redeeming qualities! I'm still trying to figure out how such great actors, like Christian Bale can be bypassed for a Golden Globe or any other type of recognition, but a piece of crap like "Atonement" gets wide spread acclaim!?!? None of the acting performances were "WOW! I'm blown away by this"!! It was like Masterpiece Theater on really bad drugs!