Overlong and total Hollywood trash

Rating: 1/10 (8 February 2007)

The cinematography is great, but unfortunately the rest of the movie is just ridiculous. The story is just so far fetched it is almost comical. DeCaprio and co, managing to escape endless bombs and about two million machine gun bullets while every part of their vehicle was hit a million times, they came out unscathed. Surrounded by savages, the Connelly character saves them from certain death with holiday snaps with natives. Carry on up the jungle.
Leo's attempt at a South African accent is just terrible, if he had a voice coach on this film, the guy should have been fired. Jennifer Connelly is just added eye candy, but the real bummer is the boring script. I fear Leo has learnt little from acting alongside some of the greats. He isn't ever going to be in the class of Robert De Niro or Daniel Day Lewis, on his performance in Blood Diamond he seems more in the Ben Affleck division.
The makers are out to please the youth and maybe this tosh will, but as far as being a good film worthy of Oscars, it stinks. If it does get any awards it will just go to show how money has replaced any form of art to the the Academy, but we already know that.
I was so disappointed with this film I actually walked out after almost two boring hours and didn't wait for the ending.