Overdone, and heavily overrated

Rating: Null/10 (18 March 2013)

Quite frankly, I don't really think there's anything to be "spoiled" here, but hey: it's better to be warned, methinks...
First of all: I saw the movie before reading the novel. Right away, I felt that something's not right. As a matter of fact, nothing's right, to be honest. The huge, huge problem is the following: only the way the story is told, is epic-esque, the story itself is (or all six of them, for that matter) dull, clichÃ©d, and has absolutely nothing new to offer. In fact, I was stunned by how utterly predictable the whole thing was, despite the efforts to make it complex. Dear directors: if a story is empty, boring, and quite honestly, heartless, there's no way you can make it interesting. You can chop it up, stir it, put it in a blender, whatever: it will remain empty, boring, and heartless.
There's a very easy way to tell, when there's something wrong with the storytelling aspect of a movie (or a director, for that matter): if there are excellent actors in the movie, who play awfully. I have never seen Tom Hanks or Halle Berry act so painfully badly. The answer is simple - they could not find the pulse of the story. Of course they couldn't It was dead on arrival.