I saw this free on a preview and nearly walked out

Rating: 1/10 (12 February 2013)

Okay I didn't pay to see this and I nearly went home early. At 172 minutes it's too long and whilst well made and well acted it's tedious (which really is a terrible thing to say of any movie). The post-apocalyptic Hawaii story is actually entertaining and you get the feeling that if they'd made that one and ejected the book they'd have actually got people to see the movie. Tom Hanks is surprisingly good (again especially in the future segment) but no one else really gets going (to be fair Ben Whishaw is very good as Robert Frobisher but let's be honest that's like fish in barrel and might as well have been a BBC period drama - or an episode of Morse/Lewis). Of the others Jim Broadbent comes out the best and is excellent but again both his Vyvyan Ayrs and Young Cavendish characters seem to be from the set of a BBC drama.
It's not that anything is that bad and certainly the movie looks nice but it's too long and you really don't care.