Goddamit!

Rating: 8/10 (1 April 2010)

I really liked almost all aspects about this movie: the plot, the setting, the cast & the way of the storytelling in general. {+ Leonardo Dicaprio is probably one of the coolest actors of the recent years- The Aviator, Blood Diamond, The Departed, Revolutionary Road etc.- quite a long way from his vulnerable Romeo-characters around the Titanic-era }.
That being said, the sole reason I wrote this comment is to nag about one single thing- the predictability. I am sure that I'm not alone with this: but well before the middle of the movie I knew all too well where it was going. And I'm really not the guy to predict unforeseeable plot twists very often, so it must have been something else than just me. Several elements emphasized too much, many things pointing in the same direction, few other -satisfactory- options left open ... I don't know, really, but I am so MAD for being stripped of the pleasure of THE GREAT TWIST IN THE END. I mean the big-shock was obviously a major goal of the movie and yet it was so OBVIOUS what was going to happen and more and more elements to support the theory kept piling up.
Otherwise everything was very cool, hence the 8 note. I just wish I had been dumber this one time.