Hugo is a boring movie !!

Rating: 3/10 (19 February 2012)

Just finished watching the movie. Had high hopes! *sigh* Most boring movie seen in recent memory. Slow, slow, slow. Acting was fine. But waiting for something, anything, to happen was grueling. The cast is mostly British, giving the whole thing a Dickensian feel, with many nods to the slapstick of early silents. Sacha Baron Cohen plays the villain of the piece, the station's policeman, like a cross between the Child Catcher in 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' and Mr Bumble the beadle in 'Oliver!' Some of this is broad and the gags wheeze a little. It's all a little too patchy to be truly great and the story splutters along in places, but 'Hugo's quixotic faith in movies is intoxicating: 'If you ever wondered where your dreams come from, they're made here,' says Kingsley's Méliès. It might be curtains for celluloid, but Scorsese, a boyish 69, clearly isn't leaving the stage any time soon. He directs every film with the passion of his first. And it shows. In the end I must say, the movie starts off exciting till half way and falls abruptly and ends as an overall boring movie.