Pointless

Rating: 2/10 (5 March 2013)

This film is like a long version of Craig David's 'Seven Days' video, without the humour, the music and Craig's smile. Painfully slow and mind-numbingly dull, with a daft, ill-thought-out premise that doesn't quite hold water, it's billed as a futuristic thriller although it's about as thrilling as watching paint dry. Neither is it particularly dramatic so it's hard to know how to categorise it. It's another poor career move by Jake Gyllenhaal after the dreadful Prince of Persia, which, with its confusion of accents and the wooden Gemma Arterton, not to mention the hackneyed concept of an antagonistic couple forced to spend time together, was about as believable as a Carry On movie. The female leads in this have little to do. Although time is supposed to be of the essence in the plot, the cast and crew are happy to waste ours and theirs on this pointless drivel.