Call me betrayed

Rating: 4/10 (30 June 2009)

I don't know what to say. I love Sam Mendes, I love the actors involved, I'm sure it's an alright book, but this, what a lifeless bore of a film. It establishes its point within the first five minutes and spends the next two hours following this psychotic couple as they whine about everything wrong with their pathetic lives. It's just... empty, it leaves me absolutely nothing at all to ponder with, a totally opposite reaction from Mendes' previous work, all which contain 10 times the charm, beauty, humor, and depth of this film. If only its script was quite as compelling as the performances and ravishing cinematography, then we might've had something worthwhile. A professional travesty.