Overdrawn boring tale dragged down by vanity of the players

Rating: 1/10 (6 January 2009)

One of the few times I wanted to get up and walk out of a movie. The core concept is amazing - what if we aged backwards physically? but once we get past that, everything else falls apart. Just wanting to create another Forest Gump does not make it so.
The narrative is so burdened by the vanity of the principal character that it looses its charm. Women audiences may swoon over Brad Pitt riding a bike but that has nothing to do with the story - his character would have done that in his youth even if he was aging like the rest of us.
The director seems to be so overtaken by images (Lousiana setting sun) that he looses control of moving the story along.
I will be scratching my head over the critical acclaim for this one for a long time!