Could have been great.

Rating: 4/10 (2 February 2013)

OK, let's start with the positives: The technical side is rather awesome and it's definitely fast pace action all the way. Also i kinda liked Bianca Castafiores' aria. And that's about it. This is Spielberg and Jackson and not Herge. Jackson managed to do Lord of the Rings without doing too much damage to the original script, but that seems to be completely impossible for Spielberg. What happened to the charm? What happened to the humor? Where is Tournesol, and why for 1000 blundering bazookas (i'm sure the Captain would have said), was it necessary to change a great adventure into a disaster like this. The story works well enough in the beginning where it pretty much follows the original, but then all of a sudden it seems like Spielberg feels compelled to outdo Herge. WHY???? There was nothing wrong with the original. As a matter of fact it worked a whole lot better than this. Shame on you, Steven!!!