Cinematically beautiful but overrated

Rating: 4/10 (8 April 2015)

This is a movie I've been waiting for. Reading the story, seeing the trailer hearing people talk about it caused this movie to go straight to my watchlist. Now after seeing it I am so freaking disappointed, I'm not sure if it's the extreme hype that is about it or if it has to do with it actually not being that good.
Cinematically this movie is absolutely beautiful there is no denying that. But that is about the only positive thing I can say about this title. The acting is boring but decent, Jake Gyllenhaal is not a favorite, but he has done some really good acting, such as Detective Loki in Prisoners or Donnie Darko in Donnie Darko. It might just be me finding the character he plays annoying and that makes me feel like his acting is not as good as it can be, or maybe it is just that I don't really like him. Either way I would not say it's among his better parts.
Then there is the storyline. This is the thing that really ruins the movie for me. It sounds like a great story and it starts out pretty well I guess but it gets so boring and predictable.
It's really a shame that a movie that is so cinematically beautiful has to go to waste because of a bad storyline.