Disappointing

Rating: 1/10 (17 February 2012)

This movie makes a sport of building up your expectations only to completely crush them. First the trailer makes you think you'll be watching some kind of fantasy adventure (I expected some kind of magical dream-like circus and for Ben Kingsley to be the new and improved mechanical man...). And then during the movie they keep telling you it's going to be a great adventure, but nothing really adventurous is happening and then you expect some great tragedy that happened to Ben Kingsley only to find out that people didn't like his films anymore (sad but certainly not a tragedy). The 3D really was the best I've ever seen, but the story... keeps wanting to be big while it really is rather small. It was a nice story and I'm sure I would have liked it more had I not been expecting anything, but I kept feeling bored and disappointed, waiting for the "real story" to begin. And then it was over.