They lost me in the middle

Rating: 6/10 (24 January 2013)

So the idea of the film is very interesting, until you start to think about how this all pieces together.
If you start demanding the viewer make enormous intellectual decisions while trying to concentrate on a fast moving sci-fi plot, then you are losing the audience by the minute. I watched this on DVD and was interrupted twice by my wife asking me to explain the plot. My 80 year old parents would have given up after 10 minutes.
Anyway, Bruce Willis certainly deserved his fee for the movie. Why they plastered a fake nose on JGL thinking that made him Bruce Jnr, well it just didn't cut it for me. As to why the hell Emily Blunt agreed to do this film, it should have been Olivia Wilde or Elizabeth Banks.
One point I would agree with - the demonised kid (future criminal overlord) was brilliant and very scary.
What you had here was a killer idea - in the wrong hands - this had all the makings of a Total Recall (the original) and left me thinking B movie all over.
You might enjoy this movie more if you are completely drunk or with a group of teenage boys who like violence.