Overacted, over-hyped and over here

Rating: 1/10 (29 August 2006)

I find it incomprehensible that people who view and comment on this site can rate this film higher than The Big Lebowski! I expected so much and have never felt so let down. Sean Penn has put in many inspired performances; The Assassination of Richard Nixon, Casualties of War, Carlito's Way and 21 Grams to name but a few. But this is pitiful. Badly directed, overacted and lacking in substance. I felt nothing for any of the characters, in fact had they all died in an horrific act of violence I don't think I could have cared any less! Once again our beloved media have championed a film that is bland, bland, bland. When one considers the amount of money spent on this you have to wonder how many Naked's (Mike Leigh's classic for the uninitiated) we could have had instead. Shocking.