Disjointed...

Rating: 2/10 (7 April 2012)

This movie is visually stunning, even in 2D. The problem with it is that it can't make up its mind about what it is. This project seems like it was rushed. They really did not know whether this would be a movie about an orphan kid, about the history of cinema, about an automaton, or a character movie set in a train station. It tries to be all of these things, and it ends up being none of them. There are other problems as well. As others have commented, the British accent used by the actors makes no sense and ruins the suspension of disbelief. What is supposed to be the biggest enigma of the movie, the automaton, turns out to be entirely unnecessary and superfluous. The only redeeming part of the movie was its last 30 minutes, on the history of early movies, despite the fact that it came out of nowhere, being totally disconnected from the previous one hour and a half. In the end, it felt like a movie without a purpose.