Much Ado About Nothing

Rating: 3/10 (28 December 2011)

I very much disliked this movie, not just because it was not a TinTin Adventure but for the fact that it had intentionally aimed for the box office.
Although it may not be sinful to just look at a movie as invest and return game, but when someone plays this game with one of the most delicate artistic aces of the contemporary comics then it shall be considered invidious.
What I understood from this movie was, Spielberg probably was reading a few pages from some of the Herge's creation, one night, when unfortunately he also watched Quantum of Solace and Transformers in a row. The result is not a re-creation of TinTin but just a clueless, meaningless action movie.
As oppose to most TinTin books where every frame and dialogue is there for a purpose, here in this melange you can swap dialogues between characters or even watch the movie from the end to the beginning and nothing would matter as there is no plan except rumble, shootings, hit and run and a few cliché words between players.
The most colourful character of TinTin adventures, Captain Haddock, is pictured so dumb that someone with no background could not imagine why he has been so loved for many years. Even TinTin lacks the good judgement purely because special effects, 3D and a good animation can replace his intelligence.
Irony is, many Hollywood movies depict the terror when machines try to overcome human. May be that's what is happening now, so even a smart director like Spilberg relies more on computer than his talent.