good idea, poorly executed.

Rating: 3/10 (22 August 2013)

after hearing different reviews from this film i had no idea what to expect but unfortunately i did not like it.
To me this film has far to many "magic tricks" that didn't make sense and didn't need to be there and at the end of this movie rather than thinking about all the twists i only thought about these moments. The other part of this movie that bothered me was the cast. Whilst you may think it has a stellar cast for me the characters lacked depth and interest, i couldn't find myself engaged with any of the characters and to be honest i thought the acting was poor. If the director cut down on the long meaningless trick scenes and instead built in a story and a background for the characters i would have been more interested.
To wrap up my analasys i would say that this film was poorly executed. i think the basic idea for the story was quite good with the twists that it produces but somehow the makers got caught up trying to make an "epic mindf**k" movie they forgot to add a story. throughout the whole film i didn't have any emotional responses and quite simply couldn't wait for it to end.