Refunds were asked

Rating: 1/10 (24 February 2008)

This has to be one of the most over-hyped movies I've seen to date. It just made no sense at all. Go watch it and tell me I'm wrong.
A lot of claims are made by 'movie experts' that say its a masterpiece. Its quite clearly only intended for people with clockwork orange on their list of their best movies of all time. The media tends to inflate the movie well past its delivered content and almost every movie critic has rated it highly, while not one member of the public I have spoken to thinks it was worth watching. I personally witnessed 15 people walk out of the cinema while watching. Put simply don't bother. As a cinematic story the film is terrible, I felt as though I walked in on something half way through and walked out before it was over. You were left trying to ponder on who the players were and how they actually came to be in the positions they were in.
On the positives individually each actor does a fantastic job, Javier Bordem in particular plays one of the most chilling killers of any movie I've seen although I would have preferred he kept his mouth closed to keep that stone cold stigma that somehow tapered off during the Mexico scenes. The story is quite intriguing and the characters are very deep, this essentially is what kept me in the cinema waiting for the prestige. Needless to say it didn't happen.
Overall the movie left me walking out the exit door with a feeling a gritty dry discomfort.