Uninspired Mess

Rating: 2/10 (9 August 2011)

There are movies that make you angry because you want them to be good, you want to like them - but that don't give you a chance. This is one of them. All in all, watching the movie was as inspiring as watching paint being dried with a flame-thrower.
By all means decent actors struggling with dialogue and character arcs that had all the sophistication of sliced bread are mere accessories to a film that announces a love of movies and storytelling but delivers a mish-mash of conflicts and story lines while blasting and bombing it's way out of every corner it finds itself in.
Don't get me wrong, the flick is competent enough in all departments except one - and the one that matters most: story. It is a collection of loose ends and coincidences told through a series of placard-like scenes with dialogue to busy divulging information to allow any space for emotions. It doesn't involve and it does not go anywhere.
Seriously - I am disgruntled to have spent two hours of my life watching this. I want my time back. Sticking with the trailer only would have done nicely.