It's The Emperor's New Clothes Movie Version

Rating: 2/10 (25 February 2008)

I don't know what film that all the high scoring reviewers (and it seems the academy voters) watched but it certainly wasn't the one I have seen, twice.
Why did I go twice to a film I have rated so low? I had to go a second time because I thought I must have missed some basic bit of explanation the first time round. Turns out I didn't.
This film probably warrants a score of about 6 due to some high strong performances and the general quality of film-making, but these are wasted as the story has huge holes and the ending is just nonsense.
Those people clogging up the bulletin boards trying to explain how there is some deeper meaning are running themselves in circles creating whole chunks of backstory and assumptions that just aren't provided in the movie.
It is the emperors new clothes in a movie, if you claim to see the invisible overcoat that just isn't there then maybe you need to look again.