Disappointed...Play the game

Rating: 6/10 (28 May 2010)

I went to a screening of this earlier tonight despite reading for the most part negative reviews for this film. I bit my ignorant tongue, and I went anyways because the majority of the reviews I read said at least it was entertaining. And it was some of the time, but unfortunately for me there were and are too many things wrong with the beginning and middle of this film for me to love it. I asked myself "why?" on several occasions in regards to the plot, the director's use of slow motion, the use of characters, the Hasassains in general, and the Emu racing "entrepreneur" ( lame attempt to replicate Jack Sparrow). For the most part, the acting was great that goes without saying mostly everything that was going on around them was not. Like the critics said, Jake proved that he could wear the role of the action hero well. Another thing worth noting is that the ending scenes of the movie were an overall significant improvement compared to the previous hour and fifteen minutes. From a suspenseful knife throwing and needle shooting fight into the last scene before the credits roll, I was entertained. Overall, this movie is not worth paying $9.75 to see in the cinema. Save your money and catch it in two years when it will be playing on TNT before POP 2 comes out. Hopefully, they will fix the problems and live up to the potential of what their first movie could have been. It is really easy and frustrating watch and see where POP could have been SO much better. It made me want to leave, and play the game on my PS2. I would have had more fun watching someone play the game that this movie was based on.