Good movie...overall

Rating: 7/10 (14 April 2012)

I enjoyed watching most of the movie. However, the character development wasn't as logical and smooth as it could have been. I understand the main character's motives, and I think the actor has done an amazing job to reflect it. The character acts according to his instincts, and shows very little consistency and gave the impression that he is definitely not a deep-thinking individual. And I was fine with that. It was his character, and the actor did very well to express it. He continued to act in favor of himself, killing everyone in his way, unconsciously becoming one of the prawns. I understand his motives of wanting to establish his old life again, but he caused too much damage in my opinion to justify his actions. Everything till here was good. The character was very constant with being inconsistent and selfish. However, it was the end that ruined my experience with the movie. This selfish character, who screamed at the prawn near the end when he found out that it would take three years to fix his arm, because the prawn needed to get some help from his home, suddenly began showing sympathy towards the prawn, sacrificing his life so that the prawn can reach the ship. Thinking about the character development to that point, it was impossible, or very unnatural for him to change so suddenly. I would like to acknowledge that the actor was amazing, one of the best performances I have seen, but the character development was not the best.