Wasted potential...

Rating: 5/10 (13 October 2013)

I really wanted to like this film more than I did. Mostly because I absolutely loved the idea of it, and the twists and turns were really wonderful, but everything was executed so poorly. Tom Cruise gave a horrible performance, which may have been the worst part of the film in all honesty. I was really counting on him to carry the film through plot holes & corny lines, but you can tell he really didn't believe in the film. A big reason I even wanted to watch this film was to see Jaime Lannister (Coster-Waldau), but his part was so minuscule and horribly written that it made me want to scream.
Another big problem is that the real meat of the story is pushed way back into the latter part of the second half, with the first hour dragging on and on.