Were you listening to the dialog?

Rating: 3/10 (29 December 2009)

I really don't get it. I don't get the mountains of praise for this movie. I should preface this by saying that I didn't see it in 3-D. I might give it another shot just so I can experience it fully, but I don't think wearing 3D glasses is going to improve the dialog. I spent the first half of this movie thinking that it really should be longer. More specifically, that it should be two 2-hour films rather than one 3-hour film. The characters weren't being developed enough for me to care about them. I wanted to care because there were so many interesting ideas and potentially interesting characters, but in the end most of them were delivering stereotypical lines. I spent the second half of the movie wishing the movie was shorter. The characters, especially the main villain, became even more predictable and two dimensional as the action increased. I had to suppress laughter at some of the scenes, like when the villain, wearing a giant exoskeletal robot suit, WHIPS OUT A KNIFE? Seriously?! I went into the movie wanting to be immersed into a new world for a few hours, but it just didn't happen for me.