Beware! Overrated!

Rating: 6/10 (2 April 2007)

Besides some amazing cinematography, and other technical merits, this movie has little to offer. Poor character development, painful exposition. This movie consists of a beginning and a middle, no proper ending anywhere to be found. As it is an adaptation of a novel, it is hard to fault them for staying true to the source material, but this movie has the same problems translating to the screen as The Da Vinci Code. The audience is expected to care about characters who are given less than 5 minutes of screen time before they are thrown into peril. Supporting characters are given annoying catch phrases or quirks in lieu of proper personalities. Look elsewhere for the next big thing in sci-fi. This is clearly out of the Stephen Spielberg school of film-making. If this film wasn't so hyped up I wouldn't feel the need to comment, but there has to be a voice of reason midst all the hysteria.