Boring story, boring acting, emotionless drivel

Rating: 1/10 (30 December 2008)

This is probably one of the worst films I have ever seen. I can see lots of people really enjoyed it, which is fine, but I think this was a really bad film.
My reasons are: The storyline was based around an incredibly simplistic premise that wasn't discussed interestingly, just told in a boring narrative that had absolutely no intrigue or complexity. Watching it unfold was like watching paint dry.
The acting and script were so bland (especially Brad Pitt) that it was almost completely impossible to feel anything at all for the characters, apart from 'woah Brad Pitt looks old and small'.
The whole thing looked and sounded like a bad TV show (like the Adventures of Young Indiana Jones or something similar).
The fact that Brad Pitt has been nominated for an award for this piece of trash is just indicative of the shallow gimickery that gets people awards. It doesn't have anything to do with acting - it's the equivalent of the 'don't go FULL retard' speech so aptly made by Robert Downey Junior's character in Tropic Thunder, (which by the way is pretty funny).
A massive pile of cheap looking drivel, that's really boring. There are only a few films that have actually make me upset with myself for having bothered to waste my time watching them, and this is one. Almost as bad as 'The Illusionist'.