Toooo loooong = dull

Rating: 3/10 (28 May 2007)

The problem with this film  and it's a big one  is the script.
It looks great and the cast is generally good to excellent. But the script The film is made up of scenes that should either have been cut by a third or cut out all together. The dialogue labours heavily over a "who cares" and extremely convoluted so-called plot and it just goes on and on and on with barely three actual jokes to brighten its running time of over three hours.
In the hands of a nimble and witty script writer there's no way this film would have clocked in at three hours and it certainly would have been a much, much better movie. As it is, its exhausting and dull length is the result of very poor story telling pure and simple, creakily papered over by special effects and big bucks.
I would challenge anyone at any given minute in this movie, to explain what's going on and why. And I mean that from the very first scene which has no plot connection with the rest of the film at all. And of course, characters are constantly doing things to get the movie to the next scene rather than because it makes sense for them to do it.
My score of three is for the effects and the cast. The actual movie is a woeful waste of time and resources.