Full of action and suspense, and still dull.

Rating: 3/10 (16 July 2007)

I'm afraid watching this thing, the images on the screen constantly in motion, the blurry images, the supersonic warp-speed editing, must have fused my synapses. I couldn't get through it. Oh, I enjoyed the score. Always liked Beethoven. But it was much easier to listen to with eyes closed.
The performances weren't bad. How can a performance be bad in a plot-driven special-effects loaded action SF flick? Even Max von Sydow, who, I was happy to see, is still working, was perforce animated.
Lots of opportunities for exploring issues like, If you can see something coming and you stop it before it comes, how come it still comes? It's the grandfather paradox of future time travel.
I really didn't care much about the characters because I didn't get to know anything much about them except that they can run fast and jump from one vertically moving vehicle to another -- the car chase, as it were, in dimension number two, up and down.
It seems to me that this movie will be an embarrassment when 2053 rolls around and everything looks and acts pretty much like it does now, in 2007. "On the Beach" (set in 1964) and "2001: A Space Odyssey" had similar problems. Well, I suppose they weren't BIG problems, but still.
Will it really ever be easier to manipulate images by waving your hands like some guy in a demonic Tai Chi frenzy than by tweaking a few dials with your fingertips?