Not really my cup of tea, but this was brilliant

Rating: 10/10 (25 December 2008)

If you're going to make a movie with this material (and I can think of a lot of reasons not to, "Forrest Gump" being at the top of the list), you really need to take your time setting up the world these characters inhabit, and David Fincher is in the position where he can...take his own sweet time.
I would recommend that if you're ambivalent about this at all, go when you can surrender three hours as well as yourself. Sentimental and romantic (an excerpt from the Broadway musical, "Carousel" is recreated here and it fits perfectly), the tone Fincher creates is pitch perfect and amazingly sustained--with the help of Brad Pitt's performance--from beginning to end.
Using the Fincher bag of cinematic tricks to seduce the viewer into accepting without even trying to understand the hook here, the main character's aging backwards, the film packs several emotional wallops, particularly the long end sequence with the amazing acting of Cate Blanchett.
The audience I saw this with was stunned at the finale. And so was I. Likely the film that will sweep the awards season.