Retro-Hollywood mediocrity

Rating: 6/10 (5 March 2012)

It's hard to believe this movie is as highly rated as it is. It is, through and through, lacklustre tripe. The fact it won more Oscars than The Artist shows what a complete joke the Oscars are.
The acting is unremarkable. The Hugo character mostly just stares and twitches his nostrils, while his gal pal mainly looks cute and smiles at everything. Baron Sasha Cohen is boring. Ben Kingsley is uninspiring. It's all Disney grade.
The characters are shallow. None of them are fleshed out enough to care about.
The plot is uninteresting. And slow. And full of clichés. And some of the plot transitions are so badly handled it's simultaneously comical and sad.
The visuals are big budget, yet devoid of character. Typical Hollywood conservative aesthetics. Lots of shiny, detailed blandness.
Nothing that stays with me, after watching it, other than a feeling of contempt towards Hollywood, Martin Scorsese, and anyone who thought this movie was actually good. The world would be a better place is this movie didn't exist.