Poorly done story

Rating: 3/10 (25 August 2013)

It looked like the writers had a pretty good story, and a pretty good budget. That being said, it seemed that any time that there was an opportunity to produce a scene multiple ways, it was done the wrong way. It appeared as if this was the directors first film, even though I am sure it was not.
There was the swimming scene with Tom and the female lead. They were talking, rough-housing, and making commotion from one camera angle, and then it switched angles, and Tom was swimming silently by himself and nothing was going on! It appeared that the director asked for the crew to get some "B Roll" of Tom just treading water, and they'd just edit it in somewhere.
I also hate to bash Tom Cruise, since it is assumed that it is the bias from him going crazy, but it is not. One of my favorite movies is The Last Samurai. That being said, he was pretty not believable in this movie. It looked like he was collecting a paycheck.
I gave this movie a fair shake, and saw this over another movie I was sure that I'd love, and was incredibly disappointed. I only gave it 3 stars because the special effects were fairly well done, and the story was fairly original and interesting.