probably only those people like it, who read the book

Rating: 3/10 (30 September 2014)

Clive Owen... a cardboard box has more emotion in it's acting. I wonder if anyone tried to give him any directions on the character or they just let him go wild.
Julianne Moore?? Yeah, she was in this film,I can't remember her character's name. I assumed from the sad music I was supposed to feel sad that she died but couldn't care less.
I've read other reviews and people who liked this movie often say that important information is shown here and there for example one piece of newspaper (out of a few dozen) next to Clive Owen in the interrogation room, that we see for a few second, mentions nuclear fallout in Africa. That's either lousy production design because why would I read THAT particular newspaper on the wall or a lousy attempt to explain the lack of information in the movie.
The problem with this film is that it thinks it's very clever with it's secrecy and aura of mystery but it's just stupid. A clever film gives us small pieces of a bigger picture which by the end I can put together in my head (an even better film surprises me by putting together the same pieces in a way I didn't think of), but here the pieces don't make a bigger picture, they don't make sense together.
There are a lot of information that isn't given (or "cleverly" hidden) but would be important, a lot that is useless and they're mostly told instead of shown. For example Julianne Moore's character get's way more screen time and build-up for a character that dies 15 minutes after appearing.
I didn't know enough about ANYTHING to connect emotionally. Not to mention Clive Owens robot acting.
This film was too long for so much nothing to happen.
(The cinematography was nice and Micheal Caine - compared to the rest - was good in his horribly written character.)