An Average Movie

Rating: 6/10 (17 February 2015)

I'm surprised at the viewer reviews of this movie. Every review I've seen for pages has been either a rating of 1 or a rating of 10 and I'm amazed that what I considered a pretty mundane film is evoking such impassioned opinions. The storyline of a wife framing her husband for her murder is a tale that has been told many times before (and often told much better, imo). The plot was far-fetched with plenty of holes, as many reviewers have pointed out however, although I wasn't "on the edge of my seat", I was reasonably entertained. The antagonist was definitely despicable and I was rooting for Ben Affleck's flawed, yet good, guy and his twin sister. All-in-all, I would sum it up as unremarkable - worth watching on video on a rainy night when you just want to enjoy it for what it is without thinking too hard. If this movie deserves a rating of 1 out of 10 (or for that matter 10 out of 10) what do we have left for the truly awful (or truly masterful) movies?