Incredibly annoying film - hours of soulless, pointless nothing

Rating: 2/10 (8 November 2012)

I watched this again as it had come out on Blu-Ray and now I remember why I didn't get all the way through the last time. Spielberg pulls out all the stops trying to bore you to death in this extremely dull picture. Christian Bale does a lot of mugging, crying and staring into space just like the director wanted. This is SS at his worst, trying to make something incredible and meaningful when it just isn't. Ordinary things are so important, why, we don't know. One pointless scene after another, almost like a bunch of MTV videos chopped up and thrown in the air and where they lay is anyone's guess. Lots of nice shots of people yelling, moving rocks, planes, etc but not a soul to be found. ZERO character development even of the main lead although we spend the entire movie with him we have no idea who he is. Jim has to be one of the most annoying children in movie history and seemingly stupid beyond belief, he seems to have no conception of reality. Avoid this unless you want to get a headache.