Bloody Horrible!

Rating: 1/10 (28 December 2013)

Once again BIG American STUDIO CRANKS UP THE MONEY MACHINE TO GENERATE REVENUE RATHER THAN TELL A TRUTHFUL STORY! This is crap. Nothing redeeming about it. Sad to see a huge talent like Emma Thompson wound up in this project. I hope she saw this coming after signing the contract, she portrays an immensely shallow and hateful character, beyond realistic acceptability and her performance seems to be pushed in to just going through the motions to collect the cheque. Tom Hanks on the other hand has a track record of being involved with movies that are more interested in generating revenue than delivering a truthful story based on the drama of real life.
The script takes the objections way too far. In pure business, movie making or not, it is implausible to believe that if this story was anything close to true as portrayed a true business person would put up with the garbage that went on. They would have cut their losses and moved on to the next project.
Skip this movie, it's so unbelievable it's beyond junk. I adore Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in their rolls in the original movie so seeing a glimpse of them again towards the end in the final production was a treasure. But a few seconds of this did not make up for the rest of the movie.