Quite an ordinary plot blown way outta proportion in a boring manner.

Rating: 6/10 (19 February 2012)

I expected a lot before watching this film but was a bit shocked that I found it sincerely boring. To see a director make a film just to may some sort of a tribute to his own profession, film - making, is just not that overwhelming. I like dramas based on the human emotion, it seems this is specifically based on creating magic out of nothing. Hugo is a primeval film about machines and man at the dawn of the cinema era. I don't blame myself entirely for not curbing my apathy towards this film. It is not a bad film - it is just ordinary and very selective.
Watch this if you don't mind watching a two hour long film based in early 20th century about an orphan.
I have a sinking feeling that Martin Scorsese thinks he nailed crime/drama films after "The Departed" and won't be making a film with that bent again. He is starting doing these tributes to film making - Shutter Island for instance, what was that all about?! Yet, that is a much better, more laconic film than Hugo (Which I doubt will figure in my top 15 of last year)