disappointing.

Rating: 2/10 (22 February 2012)

I will first state the good parts of the movie (because they are few): The images and the visual atmosphere is great. ...that is it...
Now for the bad: Characters: are very cliché and very unrealistic (all of them). The policeman is so stucked up he does not even know how to smile, the lady that teaches him is a crazy old lady in the vision of her mind, the little girl is much to refined for her age, and the list goes on.
Logic: The first thing that bothered me was the automation: we are let to believe that building an automation is easy. It is not. Many automatons we cannot replicate even today. So to be able to fix an automation that draws something is far more complicated than it seems. The kid must be a prodigy , a genius to fix it. But still he does not appear to realize that Mellier build the thing from the fact that he signed the automation... Also at first it seems he needs his father notes to fix it (that would make sense) but he ends up fixing it without them. Also at one time they say they colored all the movies by hand. The person that made this movie does not realize how expensive this thing is. The series VR5 experienced this first had and had to halt production
Emotional effect-none: The movie builds up to a secret that the old man has kept for many years. The thing appears to hurt them deeply. Any normal person would suspect a serious loss (i.e either deserted by a loved one, either death of a loved one)... But when you reach the last 15 minutes you find out the man was upset for so many years just because he lost his business... I was like wtf?! Did we become so materialistic that we care about a business that much?
Subliminal messages: The movie is filled with people that practically squandered their life and now, at the old age are happy. On the other hand all the people that actually worked for a living die in a horrible way. What moral does it have? That being an honest worker only gets you an alcoholised death, and being a total immoral person gets you everything you want?
As one previous reviewer said the movie is just an homage to an historical figure that no one even remembers today or cares about.
Recommendation: DON'T SEE IT! NOT WORTH IT!