Bo-rrinnnggg!

Rating: 1/10 (8 July 2009)

I'll never get this 2-3/4 hour of my life back and that makes me angry. Actually, it was more than that because I kept falling asleep, so I had to keep going back and starting sections over again, trying to stay awake the second time around. The only stars of this movie were the make-up and special effects, and while the F/X were OK, the makeup was awful and distracting. To my thinking, the aging (Cate forward and Brad backward) wasn't consistent with the time frame of the story. And it makes no sense that Brad's body ages backward but, apparently, his mind ages the normal way, so that he suffers dementia during his "childhood." Cate's various scenes as a dying old lady are badly written and the dialogue is nearly impossible to hear or understand. In the end, does she become one of the elderly who died in hospitals during Katrina? Is the message that all of those poor people had great stories like this one and so their deaths were truly tragic? What an absolute crock! If there were a lower rating than 1 star, that's what I'd give this complete waste of time and talent.