pretty to watch but seemed fairly pointless

Rating: 4/10 (5 April 2014)

The special effects were pretty cool, and overall, the technical elements seemed fairly well done. And the story seemed to flow fairly well.
The big problem for me was in trying to determine what the story was. There seemed to be multiple parallel tracks that the protagonist seemed to have taken simultaneously. So he's married to three different women in three parallel tracks. Confused ? Mystified ? I certainly was.
And then, near the end, we're given an explanation for what happened. But this explanation doesn't make any sense. The sophistication of the worlds we're presented with is way beyond the ability of any child, no matter how precocious.
And herein lies, I believe, the fundamental flaw to this movie. Interesting things happen simultaneously in three parallel tracks, to the protagonist, but by the end, one pivotal scene pretty much negates everything that happened earlier in the movie.
The deeply flawed and nearly incomprehensible story eclipsed the movie's special effects and excellent technical elements.