A huge disappointment

Rating: 3/10 (17 February 2014)

When i first heard about this movie, i was really excited because of the fact that it was to be directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Hanks was going to be a part of it. It couldn't POSSIBLY be bad, right?
WRONG!
I have to admit that the movie wasn't boring, but it wasn't interesting enough to keep me watching without taking breaks every ten minutes. Some of the ideas (parallel universes, a futuristic city, a fabricant going rogue and becoming a god in a post apocalyptic world where a tribe of cannibals terrorize the villagers) were good enough to make me watch until the end, but the ending was incredibly dull and disappointing. There are a lot of things wrong with this movie, like:
1- I haven't read the novel. So i just jumped into a world with A LOT of flashbacks and flash forwards. And the actors played different characters in each scene. What is not explained throughout the movie is WHY? Are these parallel universes? Or do they actually get reincarnated after death and for some reason no one says "Hey, i just saw a picture of a guy who looked exactly like you, FROM 18-GODDAMN-49?!".
The preferable answer would be parallel universes, obviously, but the movie doesn't give you a clue and expects you to just "roll with it". If you're one of those people who think "Some things are best left to the imagination of the audience", you're right, but leaving the ending to our imagination and leaving THE ENTIRE PLOT to our imagination are two ENTIRELY different things. I like the plots to be more clear, otherwise it just leads up to people not understanding them pretend to understand, and makes the movie look worse than it is because of it's pretentious fan base (aka: inception syndrome)
2- When i saw the futuristic city, i immediately wanted to know more about it, it's social structure, the vehicles they used for transport, why the old city sunk into the sea and why future people have weird eyes.
Instead of showing me more about this city, the movie decided that gay romance in 1936 was more interesting. After a few more scenes of letters from a musician to his lover that no one cares about, the story of Luisa Rey trying to uncover a plot that NO ONE cares about, and then when we finally return to the future, the interesting part, the fabricant suddenly falls in love with his savior and it turns into another "Robots have feelings" story THAT NO ONE CARES ABOUT.
The movie just INSISTS on not showing people what they want. And really, a movie can't just have multiple contradicting themes like "sci-fi, romance, action, comedy, conspiracy etc." after all, themes are USEFUL for movies, because they determine what sort of audience will like them. So instead of mixing up all of these, they could just use the last two stories, the story of a fabricant standing up against the oppressors and rising to godhood apocalypse.
3-The ending. Seriously? I expected the movie to have an end so mind- blowing that i can't POSSIBLY expect , but instead the movie doesn't connect the dots and just says something like "Death is a beginning, do good stuff because you're gonna return here eventually, and btw, EVERYTHING IS LINKED... though we don't know how... or why...". This, is the type of ending i hate the most, the one that's meant to be educating and mind-blowing, but is so cliché and simple that it sounds like a nine year old's thoughts on life. And no, adding a complex parallel universe theme to the movie doesn't make it look smart, it just makes it complicated and silly because of the lack of explanation in the movie. But the plot is from a novel so we can't really blame the movie for this.
I wish they would think everything through before just jumping in and making a movie.