Way overrated on IMDb

Rating: Null/10 (19 July 2010)

I see so many glowing reviews of this film cheerleading it on in some kind of effort to get a wider release I guess. It's a distortion of reality imho. It's a rather mediocre film that reeks of film subsidy abuse. Its got that bland look and feel of a film made in other countries as location substitution. To make it match, they suck the life out of everything.
The sci-fi element just looks uninspired and cheap, even the cg is second-rate. For a TV film it would be pretty decent effects wise, but not for a Hollywood production.
and of course the story, its a bunch of "if only" and "if I had" navel gazing nonsense. If your thing is watching leto go emo, then sure it might be for you, otherwise its just dull scene after dull scene, the narrative is an incoherent mess that makes you feel nothing at all. Another reviewer brought up the problem of clichés, and that's true, shots/ideas are ripped off from better films. It just all never comes together, and is never convincing as it jumps haphazardly from one version narrative to another, and so you don't care.