Turn off the sound. The rest is fine.

Rating: 6/10 (19 April 2014)

The dialogue is gawd-awful. Really, really bad. But Werner Herzog, a famed documentarian, makes a surprising and very effective appearance.
And the direction is top notch, with vivid, good looking, impact-full, communicative shots.
The plot isn't even bad. Usually the same guy writes the plot and the dialogue so they fail or triumph in tandem. Not this time, maybe the screenwriter did one, and the novel's author did the other.
Traditionally, I grudgingly like Tom Cruise's performance. This time, he went for a characterization of the hero as a guy who takes himself far too seriously. Otherwise, the acting all around is OK.