What a over-hyped, boring , dull lousy movie

Rating: 1/10 (14 February 2009)

I resented the fact that I wasted almost 3 hours of my life watching this. The screen writing was a disaster. The premise wasn't tight. There was so much bad about this flick. The only redeeming feature was some of the acting and the scenery. The way the story was told screamed similarity to Titanic - an old women telling the story. And in some ways it was like a bad - I mean really - bad take on Forrest Gump. Which is fitting since it made me want to "run, Forrest, run" out of the theater.
So there's a diary being read to an old lady on her deathbed. A diary that began being penned around the time Benjamin was 6 years old. At no point do we ever see him write a word. And penning a diary simply wasn't believable. So there is this apparently magical clock and we are supposed to believe that Benjamin's unique birth is somehow tied into the clock simply because he is born on the same day it is unveiled. I would imagine then that all babies born in New Orleans that day were born old. Where was the tie-in? It took seemingly forever for the story to even beginning to gel. There was no early "hook". I was almost sleeping by the time the old kids is revealed. Frankly, after 2 hours I was wishing Hurricane Katrina would kill the old lady or her daughter would put her out of her misery.
This was so miserable I would have rather endured the nauseating banter over the stimulus bill. At least it had "stimulus". Academy awards material? Not on your life. This is right up there with Pennsylvania 6500.