Appalling waste of life

Rating: 1/10 (24 May 2015)

I regret going to see this. It is, in my opinion the worst film I have ever seen in my life. The only reason it has one out of ten is that IMDb wouldn't let me rate it as zero.
I have no idea how this managed to get 8.7 out of ten. I find this rating a disappointing indictment of mankind.
The film starts off quite well, but runs out of ideas fast - or rather it has lots of ideas, but each seems to be a cliché - and ones which are so overused as to be threadbare. It's almost like someone interviewed 8 to 12 year old boys leaving cinemas over the course of about 1000 films, wrote down a list of clichés that the audience found entertaining, and then spent all of ten minutes in an attempt to transform the research into a script.
I'm not sure how much I would have to drink to reach the point where I was able to sustain the level of suspension of disbelief to overlook the many holes and contradictions in the plot, but would fear that liver failure would hit me before I reached the required level of inebriation.
The phrase "scraping the bottom of the barrel" doesn't seem to apply here. Almost all of the characters seem shockingly two dimensional. The dialogue is appalling. The special effects are good, but the overall level of ridiculousness reduces the impact of the stunts to circus level.
Some films are so bad they are good. This film doesn't seem to make any effort to support the stunts and special effects - and it's that lack of effort that makes this film, in my humble opinion, so bad that it's not worth watching on television.