Completely overrated

Rating: 4/10 (28 January 2012)

Seriously, this movie is rating 7 right now? The plot is ludicrous, the acting is not compelling, and the writing is just blah. I mean, the stunts are nice and all, special effects are all dialed out, and we get some pretty travel shots but the plot is so over the top that we found ourselves giggling in parts that were clearly intended not to be funny. I did not expect verisimilitude and was prepared for a certain amount of suspension of belief (this, after all, is a "popcorn cruncher" sort of movie and that's what we expected) but let's not strangle Credulity and leave it corpse to cool out in a dumpster, OK?
I didn't find the acting too engaging, either, much as I usually like Simon Pegg. Certainly, this sort of movie does not require the entire gamut of emotions, just A to B, to paraphrase Dorothy Parker. Even so, I would have hoped for a little more chemistry, though I suppose considering the dialogue available to the actors they did what they could.