I am boring Man! (well, for 1/2 the movie at least)

Rating: 6/10 (15 May 2008)

I'll give it a 6 because the effects were such that everything looked physically real. Nothing too shiny, gravity actually exists, things like that.
But honestly, this movie just drags in places where the director thinks he is developing character. But he's not. RDJr. is wooden, Jeff Bridges is phoning it in, Gwenyth (sp?) is simply awful with no personality (what's new?).
One more "evil corporation" movie in the books. And setting this movie in the pseudo real world just makes it confusing. What the heck is Jim Cramer doing plugging his stupid "Mad Money" show in this movie? He's a clown for one thing, and it takes us COMPLETELY out of the alternate reality universe, as does the whole Afghanistan thing (despite us not actually fighting Taliban or Al Qaeda there).
But on the plus side, there were a lot of AUDIs in the movie, including my new favorite car the A5/S5, so that's a plus. And a modified Boeing BBJ digitally changed to have some weird tail section.
But considering all the hype and the positive reviews, I was expecting something, I don't know, great? Or visionary if flawed, like the original Tim Burton Batman. But we didn't get anything but a hack written, hack directed, phoned in acting movie with really good SFX.