Where is God in THIS?...

Rating: 3/10 (12 July 2013)

First of all, I must say I believe in God and I came across the book when I was in India on a spiritual journey. I watched the film afterward, after coming home, to see if the movie had do any justice to the spiritual theme. It did not, I think...
I must admit that the visuals are spectacular as many reviewers have already pointed out, and I also found the acting all right, but I truly believe this story lacks the core, or rather it MISSES the point it has claimed it wanted to convey!
So I give only 3/10 because come on, spirit is missing from this story! How can they claim anyone will believe in God after seeing this?! Mentioning His name some times in the film won't cause any miracles! This whole conclusion of story is only about a mental trick to cope with a traumatic incident! It may be symbolic and the end may be heart-wrenching (in a bad, sad way, I think), but it is just a pseudo-spiritual, inconsistent, dark story which confuses but never uplifts!
I must admit, in the beginning the story really dealt with the religious theme more, but as soon as Pi got shipwrecked, it all was like switching to a completely another story... Oh, and it felt even too slow and uneventful... Both during the book and the film. And I still don't really understand what they wanted to symbolize by that strange island. It was so out-of-place.
I think it is unfair to advertise this as spiritual, uplifting, finding-God-by-watching-it... It's a mistaken, over-rated hype. I'm glad if it added anything valuable to anyone who has watched it, but all I felt was that the writer wasn't really sure what he wanted to write about...