Dull and poorly enunciated

Rating: 4/10 (25 December 2009)

I got this on DVD because I wasn't interested enough to see it in theaters, and apparently I wasn't interested enough to see it on DVD. I found it incredibly dull and difficult to understand everyone's odd accents. There were some Midwestern attempts I believe, and I swear some were going for British (?!) or maybe just "East coast elite". I don't know and it would have been more successful if they all just skipped it. Christian Bale can keep his unusual American accent though, it's comprehensible and I think his normal accent is still thick British so that would have been out of place.
Some movies need to be 2 hr 20 min, this one needed to be 1 hr 45 min. I think I would have preferred an upbeat action film, not a docu-drama. It was stylish and the actors were certainly good if the plot interests you, I just thought the story and execution boring.