A lost day

Rating: 1/10 (23 May 2009)

You know the saying "time flies when one's having fun"? This movie is the exact opposite. One and a half hour into the movie and I was already feeling a whole day's gone by. I'm a very tolerant, open minded person and I have watched movies of greater length, and I never needed car explosions to feel entertained, yet at the end of this movie I felt as if a year of my life had gone by without noticing it - the movie lasts only 2.40 hours and this says it all.
One can see the movie is rich in budget, special effects etc but still it is a pretentious little flick with shallow dialogue portrayed as a cinematic masterpiece. I recommend this movie with all my heart to an exhausted parent whose child is hyper active and doesn't want to go to sleep: let the kid watch it, sleep will be guaranteed, or to a sadist who ran out of ideas on torture methods.