Wow! A 225 million dollar pile of crap!

Rating: Null/10 (26 August 2014)

When film producers decide to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a film and pour all of that money into just the special effects, this is the kind of nonsensical, annoying, plot-hole- filled product that results. It doesn't matter how good (or overpaid) the cast is, if the script and editing is this poor, all they've done is wasted the whole budget. I like to watch films that leave me with something to ponder, films which inspire, films which are clever, with plots that hold together under reasonable scrutiny. They really should have just taken some of the better elements from the comics rather than writing the most improbable, ridiculous, storyline they could come up with. This was just a waste of time (for me to watch) and seems to illustrate something I've noticed is becoming true: the bigger the budget, the bigger the (likelihood of) failure. Some might say this was an "epic" film; I'd say it was an epic failure.