Overrated and badly directed, cheese script

Rating: 2/10 (22 January 2010)

The hype. So often Hollywood picks a slum film and just blows it up. I think it is the Tarzan white director thing again. Just like if Clint Eastwood did a Chinese film you know it would get an Oscar. human beings are pack hunters and they follow the pack. Compared to anything you can see in a film festival what exactly is so special about this film. Its not Forest Gump which moves and takes you places. The funny thing is the film is moving but going no where. I made no investment in the characters, I didn't care about him. He was not real, his acting definitely want very good either. So character development isn't there. The story is stupid to be blunt. The concept is narrow and just not that interesting. If a script is written from a concept, it is very different from if it is written from a story of human beings on a journey. A collection of unrealistic superhuman independent sketches put together in a cutting room and some of those sketches don't even add anything to the story. Now someone over sold this film and I went out an bought the DVD at the New release rate. Biggest waste of money. I could have got 3 DVDs for the price of this one, I had Valkyre in one hand and I cant believe I put that down for this cotton candy junk. The inter splicing is so over used you would think the director would be able to use it to effect. However it more kills the timing than adds any value. The film takes from cinema and gives absolutely nothing back. There is nothing in this film that you could show to a film student and say here is a good example of Casting is horrid, continuity in terms of the stories intention is amateur. The music is disconnected from the visuals, loud and mood killing save 1 or 2 love themes. It does boast good editing, or good anything. Searching hard I found the 5.1 mix to be well done and that it is itooh the DVD box cover was really funky. That is how stupid this film is.