Tedious, pretentious and bloody

Rating: 1/10 (26 February 2008)

Before seeing this movie I don't think I'd heard one bad thing about it. I mean, after all, it just won best picture; obviously it's got to be at least watchable, right? Wrong. I honestly cannot understand why people love this movie so much. For the first half, the movie remains relatively continuous and straightforward. The acting is stellar, cinematography awesome, etc.... and then, very suddenly, the movie completely loses focus and starts spiraling down a confusing path which had myself and my friends sitting and staring blankly in confusion at the TV for the next hour going "how much longer is the movie?" I have only once or twice found myself to be in the vast minority of people when it came to my opinion on a movie. But in this case...WOW. Maybe I didn't see the same movie as everyone else, but that aside, I am at a complete loss for why so many people are raving about this film.