Couldn't wait for it to finish, unfortunately

Rating: 2/10 (16 May 2014)

This is the first Tom Hanks film that I cannot honestly say I enjoyed watching. I'm not sure why he starred in it - he must have really loved the script/screenplay!
Stylishly filmed and with some good actors, this film certainly got me thinking but not necessarily in a good way. The premise and the plot were good. However, the continual jumping around between the six stories made it very difficult to watch and I didn't really understand it in any meaningful way.
The one enjoyable thing about this film was trying to spot who portrayed the characters in each segment. I did not feel there were any racial slurs in the film - quite the contrary. My suggestion is this: rather than get angry about it, the viewer should suspend their disbelief in many of the sections where actors played characters who plainly were of a different race.
In summary, this film was confusing, disjointed and far too long. Effectively, each segment was almost half an hour long but I feel the story could have been effectively told in half that time.
Thats three hours of my life I'll never get back - I'm extremely glad I didn't go to the cinema to view it!