You could hear crickets in the audience

Rating: 1/10 (20 May 2006)

Boy, what a sleeper this was. Ron Howard, Opie, along with fellow Hollywoodonian, Tom Hanks have sunken to a new low of innate boredom. I couldn't have thought it possible that even I, someone who really takes movies with a grain of salt, would walk out of a movie. And that is what I did with this one. It wasn't so much the fact that the movie didn't resemble the book--on the contrary. The movie stayed too close to the book. This in effect sapped out whatever life the movie could have had since it didn't have any direction whatsoever.
I'm really disappointed by the fact that this could have been a summer must-see-movie, something along the lines of National Treasure or Raiders of the Lost Ark. Instead it was an absolute mess. I really don't see it making past 3 weeks before the announcement of it going straight to DVD in a few months.
Anyway, about an hour into the movie, I walked out, got my money back and went and did something more creative...went home to pop in National Treasure into my DVD player.