Painfully boring

Rating: 2/10 (28 February 2012)

I'm fan of Scorcese, but this is way too boring. How to impress people in 2012? Shoot in 3D, add lots of moving background people/characters, overload the set with a million details and useless moving objects, have the camera fly all over the place with unrealistic angles... and you get something that novices would rave about. Overbloated CGI is NOT cinematography. The storytelling is extremely slow and boring. I was halfway through the movie and fell asleep (and this happens to me with really bad movies). Don't even care how it ends, I skipped over the scenes for the rest of it, and the end seemed as boring as the beginning. It doesn't keep the attention going with its useless theatricals, purposeless guard, old lady with dog, old fat man afraid of dog... Seriously! I gave it a 2 for the CGI effort, but movies aren't about CGI. If something lacks substance and intrigue, then it's not worth wasting time on it. Kids might be impressed with it, but serious cinephiles should avoid. And Scorcese, please stick to your style and don't attempt to make childish movies overloaded with CGI ever again. Leave that to the geeks like Peter Jackson.