A sea-sicking journey

Rating: 3/10 (19 May 2006)

Poor acting (too flat, no emotion...), uselessly over-stylized cinematography (hence annoying), over-explicit picturing of concepts, weak story because too ambitious but with too few substance or at least not fitted to a screen. As I just read, this picture lacks motion. I am afraid this story was just too ambitious for Ron Howard and picking up top actors does not make it work any better when he does not leave them from freedom to "act".
Not the worst movie of the year but definitely not the excitement I was expecting (when I went to see it on its first night)... The magic is just not there.