A Big Letdown

Rating: 3/10 (10 July 2011)

I went into this movie with high hopes. I usually enjoy Matt Damon's acting and the trailers made this movie out to be an exciting Sci-Fi thriller.
The movie starts out well enough but it never seems to get going. The plot is separated by a few convenient flash forwards where the characters seamlessly pick up right where they left off. This gives the film a lack of flow and was probably a byproduct of lazy screen writing. The plot just never gets that interesting, even the chase scene's are short and uninteresting.The plot basically boils down to the love story between Matt Damon and Emily Blunt's characters with the interesting Sci-Fi aspect as a framework. The relationship never seems to get to deep which left me not caring whether or not they ended up with each other in the end.
Matt Damon did a pretty good job considering the mediocre script. His character, however, was very flat. The dialogue is very uninteresting and the back stories are lazily pasted in in an attempt to give the characters some depth.
I thought this movie would at least succeed to entertain me with slick action and a mind-bending story line. However it turned out to be just a badly written typical Hollywood love story.