Well done, but what's the point? Watch Chaplin instead.

Rating: 5/10 (27 December 2011)

This was a very well done movie visually, but the story was simplistic and predictable, and if you're going to try and pull off a silent, black & white movie in 2011, then it had better different from all the other b/w movies that have been made before it. What makes this movie special was that it was made in today's age of in-your-face big special effects and CGI bells and whistles, but in the end, it doesn't stand out as one of the great silent movies ever made. If you haven't seen a silent b/w movie before then don't waste your time on this, see the master -- see Chaplin. Chaplin is much more clever -- he offers multiple story lines and brilliant, original comedy; amazingly fresh after all this time.