Oh really...?

Rating: 4/10 (13 September 2009)

Other commentators here have expressed their ideas more eloquently than me so, I intend to keep my comments as brief as possible.
This film is just plain silly. Endlessly, terminally silly. The nearest approximation I can give to readers is Transformers meets ET meets Princess Bride meets Wall Street.
Sure, I get the point about why it was set in South Africa. Sure, I know the ending was pure schmaltz. Why of course I know corporations are bad (er...does that include the film industry too?). In fact, I felt like I had been hit on the head with these points of reference so many times during the film that I really did feel like leaving the theater after about 30 minutes.
Oh, and the point others make about the steady-cam approach to film making...agreed, it gets very very annoying pretty darn quickly.
I took the family to see this. A trip to the cinema ain't cheap these days. I wish I had spent the money in some better way...like putting it toward root canal work - I think it would be less painful. Silly film!