Very bad.

Rating: 2/10 (2 March 2009)

Well, I have seen this movie in the same day that I've seen the Slumdog Millionaire. In my opinion, the both movies had a similar idea, i.e. to present a story of their heroes, who meet and loose and meet together again, during their lifetimes. Despite the similarities, now I have to say, that the "Slumdog" was an excellently managed moving film, with great story telling, and the creators of the "Benjamin Button" can be only jealous about that. I cannot call their movie otherwise but an expensive junk. It's not only the idea that some person would be growing up by actually getting younger in the physical way. The idea was courageous itself, in any case a good artist could play with it a lot. Nevertheless, it seems to me the film makers lost their courage soon and the result is just that mess. During the film I didn't know if the director wanted us to be chilled, thrilled, if he wanted us to cry (this seems to me the most probabilistic now) or to be teased, or to be scared or if we were supposed to laugh. Casting in the movie was by stars like Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchet, the people doing the make-ups must have had a tough job too. Some scenes of the movie resembled other movies like The Big, Forever Young, Magnolia or even The Blue Lagoon. By the way, it seemed to me that in parts where Cate Blanchet was to play a tender ballet dancer also the cameraman had a tough job, finally shooting this scenes from a big distance and in dark scenes. Cate Blanchet was perfect for playing the character of Katharine Hapburn in the Aviator, the soft tender tiny ballet dancer definitely is not her role. Well, if you have to see this movie, you go, but honestly, I was ashamed to walk out from the projection room in the cinemaplex, where other people could see me, that I was to see the movie like that.