Disorganized and Jerky

Rating: 5/10 (30 October 2013)

I watched the TV version (have not seen the movie version) so do not know what the difference is. However much the photography and scenery were fantastic, I do admit. But what I was dismayed with was the jerky-jerky panning back and forth between different time eras. Each vignette was hacked into pieces and jumbled up like playing 52 card pickup. My mind kept reeling back and forth as my mind was jerked out of one era into another and then back again with no seeming reasoning. But what I disliked the most was the mumbling of Tom Hanks in the part where he and this woman are living a kind of primitive life and must climb a mountain. I do not know what to call the scene, but I found the rambling mumbling and consequent horrible bastardized English to be atrocious. I am sure that the script made Hanks turn his speech into nonsense because I have always admired Hanks for his elocution - but this part was horrendous. It irritated me to sit there watching this character who sounded like a backward primitive from the swamps of Louisiana who had never heard the English Language pronounced correctly. I give an "F" to the script writers and the director for this - forcing viewers to bite off of a dead stick. There is no room for poor elocution as far as I am concerned. If he was going to speak incoherent English, let him say it CLEARLY! That way, we all know he is speaking nonsense and gibberish rather then mumbling it under his breath.
Between the jumbled scenes and jerky-jerky plots and sub-plots, with action ripping my brain out left to right in no common order and being rendered senseless with gibberish and mumbled parts, I found this film product to be sorely lacking and probably one of Hank's worst ever films.