Mmm...

Rating: 3/10 (4 November 2011)

I watched the trailer and automatically thought: this movie is going to suck. You just can't try to convey a serious topic and have Amanda Seyfried running around in perfect hair and high heels.
I think if you analyze each part of the movie individually things are not that bad (except for the screenplay, in which apparently, the character of Sylvia is designed to act as Will's inner voice asking a bunch of stupid questions and making a lot of useless remarks). Needless to say, I was right, the movie sucked (at least for me). I'll admit there were some good things to it: 1) It wasn't horribly made 2) The idea wasn't terrible 3) the world did make sense (mostly) ... which is actually one of the most important things in a sci-fi film. If you're world makes sense... you're half way there. But then, when you've got the world... you need the characters to fill it... and that my friends is where things went terribly wrong.
I'm not going to talk about the acting skills, because I don't really know a thing about acting (I still don't know why Sandra Bullock won that Oscar back in 2010 but I'm glad she did). I'm going to talk about characters, and how I was confused about the ones in this particular film. I mean, it was just weird the way Will went from being an all-American guy to this Bond/Hood hybrid running all around the place and stealing earrings from "old" ladies to give them to her new found girlfriend.
It was also weird to have two people teaming up to destroy a system they didn't really understand. I mean, sure, some "old" dude tells you you've been controlled your whole life and then kills himself by giving you all of his time(money) and suddenly the system should be overthrown; and yes, I know it also has something to do with her mother's death, but honestly... when they were actually robbing all those banks (it was like one bank...) I just kept thinking it was all (somehow) Sylvia's idea, and that she had been planning it with that rich guy from the beginning, and that Will was just a piece of a much bigger master plan... and all of the sudden, I was sitting in the movie theater thinking of a thousand ideas that would have made the movie better...
Go watch if you're out of options or a sci-fi fan... or better yet, rent GATTACA, that one is worth watching.