Rarely Have So Many Toiled For So Little...

Rating: 2/10 (6 March 2010)

My subject line is taken from a review of Exorcist II: The Heretic but I have not come across a film to which it applied so aptly until now. I went to see this movie with expectations aplenty. An excellent cast and a tried and true director. The cinematography was good, the performances were good; therefore, I put all of the fault in the director. NOTHING HAPPENED. It was tedious and boring. I figured out the ending in the first five minutes which was ridiculously contrived and about as new and refreshing as the plot of a Friday the 13th movie. I expressed my feelings to my dad who told me that the book was exactly the same. Maybe Scorcese was true to the book which makes me wonder why they made it into a movie at all?! 40 minutes into the film I was trying to find enough light in the theatre to reflect in my watch so that I could see how long I had been sitting there- that's never a good sign. Avoid this one at all costs unless you are desperate to cure your insomnia.