Overrated, Total Disappointment!

Rating: 4/10 (31 July 2013)

I had little doubts prior to watching this movie as to whether or not I would like it...I was sooo wrong! I was completely shocked that this movie was as weak as it was! It's not a good movie on so many levels. Come to find out, the critics didn't rate this movie very well either. I have little doubt that the user ratings were artificially inflated, because this movie is not an 8. Realistically it's more like a 6.
I'll start off with the positives. The movie had good acting and pretty landscape/imagery! Major props to Decaprio for maintaining a great acting performance despite the weak storyline/dialogue etc. That's where the optimism stops. The story-line is dreadful!... The far fetched story and action sequences put a Rambo movie to shame! Trust me, I am not exaggerating! Especially for a movie that's supposed to take itself seriously. DiCaprio's story with Connelly had little development and I felt no connection what so ever. spoiler - Is it really supposed to be a sad moment when he calls her up on the phone in the end? Talk about a dud of a movie.
Spoiler DiCaprio's character starts off like-able and becomes increasingly dislike-able as the movie plays out. It's one of those rare occasions when I would have been all down for the cliché' of essentially becoming enlightened along the way and giving the diamond away like he did, although the only reason he handed it off was because he was dying. I think if you throw Dicaprio and Connelly in a movie you could fool a lot of people into liking a movie. If these ratings are legitimate (which I doubt) people were fooled into liking it, because it's factually a weak movie! BTW I can't believe Dicaprio got nominated for best actor in this movie and not The Departed (one of the greatest acting performances in cinematic history).