So So Soooo bad, everything about this film was poor.

Rating: 1/10 (25 November 2012)

I am not an obsessive fan when it comes to movies and I give each movie every chance and do not tend to feel the need to share my opinion on them. But this movie really pushed me to my limit and I feel I have to say something as it has a truly undeserved 6.6 rating when everything was so terrible.
The acting was dreadful, Justin Timberlake let himself down here big time his line delivery and reactions to certain events was just so bad it is hard to even know where to begin when criticising him. He was not alone though the whole cast was poor there was not a single decent performance in the whole film.
The script was so weak, I could write a better one and I failed GCSE English. Also the poker scene was truly awful, I know most people in the world do not know much about poker but surely if your going to put it into your movie you could at least learn a little bit about it.
First things first I will start with what happened after the hand, Will is congratulated like he just played very well and won because he was a better player, when in fact he played it shockingly. Almost all of the time was put into the pot before the river card was dealt. Will had only 9 high at this time and could only win if he hit a gut shot straight which meant there was 4 cards left in the pack that he could win the hand with. On top of that, Will says something to his opponent about knowing that he did not have a good hand, when the cards are turned over at the end he shows 3 queens, which at the time was the 3rd best possible hand there could have possibly been only losing to 89 and JT. I barely know much about poker myself but I have played a little and this scene was outrageous.
The special effects were as big a joke as the acting, just watch the car crash scene where they burst his tyres with a stinger and send him rolling down the hill. I have seen better in Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends.
What I feel was the main flaw was the story **** main spoiler coming here*****
When his mother dies as she ran out of time because the bus fare had doubled meaning she had to walk. I thought initially that was a good idea, them running desperately to each other her with seconds left and him with his new found fortune of 100 years. In my mind I thought 'oh no, now it's on!' They have killed his mother because nobody would even give her 1minute of their life to save her.
I could picture it, the ultimate revenge. He was going to take all the time in the world because they had taken his mother who was all he had. But alas, he hardly gave her a second thought for the rest of the movie.
In fact there was some weird back story about his father between him and the police officer that was out to get him. I thought it got totally dull and boring from there on, in a way he was getting revenge on the system but there was no mention of his dead mother still lying on the street.
There are a million jokes about how time has been wasted watching this film that I wont ever get back so I wont bother.