Bloated Shallow Rubbish

Rating: 4/10 (19 December 2012)

This film is expensive bloated nonsense. Watch out for a gut churning funny performance from Michael Caine - he kills (as in ruins) every scene he's in, his lines are terrible and his delivery just risible, and why use these actors who've had that surgery that keeps their eyes open and makes them look so conspicuously Hollywood rather than anything like the type of character they're trying to portray? The story swivels on a conceit revealed far too late in the day for it resonate, it just leaves you feeling cheated, and it is silly anyway, and the whole thing is just overblown and for low IQ boys, silly fights, silly toys, not genre defining but clichéd and hackneyed. Just a franchise and director going through the motions using pyrotechnics to obscure the shallow truth.