The incredibly boring film of Benjamin Button

Rating: 1/10 (15 January 2010)

A truly awful movie is hard to find. Usually there is just a spark of something that made the film beat the production system that always says "no". In this film it is utterly incomprehensible who thought it might be interesting, and who thought it would be successful. The story seemed like a good idea to F.Scott Fitzgerald, who was making the equivalent of a quarter million dollars per story at the time (that was when people read stories). The very implausible birth of a 90 year-old baby could be glossed over. Same with his childhood. Same with how his foster-parents could ever get attached to him. Fitzgerald's rip-off of Wilde's The Portrait of Dorian Gray could be carried off in the imagination. But when a literal-minded commercial cinema put it into production, it just didn't work at all. Implausible from the word go, it remained implausible throughout its immense, mind-crushing length. Only the most raving egomaniacs could have produced this huge turkey and thought they'd make something great. It was dead from the kick-off. Any lover of cinema should studiously avoid this giant turd of a movie and not even watch it just to see what happens. Nothing happens. Period.