So ridiculous, botched and implausible that felt as a long Saturday Night Live parody sketch!

Rating: 5/10 (24 August 2015)

I cannot understand how this movie gets 7.8 in IMDb. It is a complete disaster! How a tragic, dramatically dense and tense theme (promising extraordinary things had a talented scriptwriter taken the job) ended up as a bland cartoon with linear characters and all disrespect for credibility is something truly unexplainable.
There is not a single credible scene in the movie; nothing sticks to the golden rule of plausibility: neither the direction, nor the acting and much less the script. Even if this is based on real events, the director has managed to present them in the most unbelievable way, not once, not twice, but scene after scene until the end, making the spectators sigh with regret and repeating to themselves "Oh, come on! Not again! Is this a joke?".
The characters in a Disney cartoon have more depth and hues than the ones we find here. Lieutenant Franken?? My goodness, his villain smiles and his acting deserve to be nominated among the worst of the decade. The arch villains in Batman (the 60s TV series by Adam West) make more complex characters.
The twists and turns in the plot, which should have contributed to create tension and suspense, are so serendipitous, stretched out and poorly presented that they make you laugh or cover your face in embarrassment: "Is this Saturday Night Live and I have missed the initial credits?".
In short, although I was very well predisposed to enjoy this movie when it started, I couldn't have been more disappointed.