Almost as bad as the third Matrix

Rating: 4/10 (13 July 2008)

I will never forgive this movie for its opening scene. Gruesome in its visual reality with a discordant inauthenticity of characterization and character tone. The rest of the film blunders along in similar and different fashion.
Other things I hated about this movie: Kiera Knightley's character acting tough is like Sun (from Lost) acting bad-ass: I just don't buy it. She went from understandably spunky to plain annoying. Unnatural and senseless shift of action to the Far East. Amateurishly post-modern staging of an after-life (or near-death) experience. Longer than needed by at least an hour. Bad jokes. Worse-than-normal acting by the extras and non-primaries. Intrusive score.