OKAY...this movie definitely CAN be shorter...and needs to DEVELOP..

Rating: 5/10 (28 December 2008)

This movie does not deliver! All the way throughout the movie, you go through Button's monotonous life, because he's taciturn, more taciturn than ANY viewer likes to see him. Here's how taciturn he is: he doesn't reply back with more than 2 line replies from any character in the movie. This alone destroys the "emotional" feel of the movie, because how can one sympathize or connect with Benjamin if everything is processing inside his head> (You just want to yell at him for not being able to chat...) There's no "climax" to this movie. It's just a movie on his life with no moral. I can imagine females loving this movie (because they love these types of movies and the "hot" actor Brad Pitt.) but your typical male (like me) will not enjoy this movie. Males who say they enjoy this movie probably are critics or heavy movie watchers (and critique, or think A lot), both of which make them not typical; smart men, this movie is for you.
This is pure Oscar material. It's not entertainment-friendly. 2 hours 40 minutes of pure "getting to nowhere". Sure there's a conclusion at the end, but what have I just learned from sitting here for almost 3 hours? None of the characters really "progress", and there's nothing about this film that audiences will remember for longer than ...a year?