good movie with a lot of inconsistencies

Rating: 6/10 (28 December 2008)

I neither hated nor loved this movie. It was beautiful, as everyone else has said, and did make me at least shed a tear or two at the end. But a lot of it didn't seem to add up. And for a movie about time, unfortunately a lot of what didn't add up had to do with time. For one thing, why did his real father, near the end of his life, still have almost jet black hair and not look very old at all? Did they have Grecian formula for men back then? Also, why did Benjamin hook up with Daisy, get her pregnant and then decide when the baby was a year old he needed to leave? Because if the child and Daisy meant so much to him, he still could have stuck around for at least 10 more years. He comes back about 12 years later and is a young, but still grown man. It's better than he wanders around India rather than trying to raise his daughter and be with the woman he loves so much? Completely illogical! And more than anything, the stupid hummingbird thing was just completely ridiculous and was something even a child would groan about in an animated Disney movie. It reminded me of the feather in Forest Gump, but that feather was a lot more plausible. In fact, this definitely seemed a Forest Gump want-to-be in a lot of ways, as others have noted. Just doesn't quite live up to that standard.