Boring film!

Rating: 1/10 (14 August 2006)

First of all: Kudos for making a big movie on a small budget. That's something to admire. But, - I found the film very, very boring. None of the characters managed to become more than cardboard figures representing some cliché archetypal movie character, if that. Two of the main characters were just about invisible, as badly drawn as they were. No doubt the true stories that the film is based on are extremely interesting and impressive on their own, but that never makes it into this movie. It all falls apart because of one-dimensional acting, shoddy directing and, well, bloodless plot. There are no hooks.
I watched the whole thing with director/producer's commentary afterwards, and the banality of their thinking shocked me. More than once my girlfriend and I burst out laughing from the Hallmark card philosophy and the team's blindness to the film's obvious faults.
Sorry - good try, but doesn't really cut it.