Utterly Horrible, How can anyone like this???

Rating: 1/10 (28 June 2013)

Wow, I really am at a loss of how anyone can like this huge waste of money and manpower. I could write a huge list of all of things I hated about this, but I really don't want to waste so much time, and after skimming some of the other negative reviews, others have covered a lot of what I hated in depth. To sum it up briefly: The way people act in this is very stilted and unnatural. There is no joy, humor, wittiness, edginess; it is all very flat and unemotional. The "movie" plods along, much longer than it needed to be. The "villain" is a ridiculous one dimensional charactiture that has no charisma, in fact you cannot even understand what he is saying most of the time. What was his motivation? Why would ANYONE follow such a freakish looking weirdo? Did they ever explain the outlandish mask he wore? People come in and out of the movie like they just walked on to a set. It is all very false and fake seeming. The dialogue was infantile and uninspired. What happened to Christian Bale? He seems to be sleepwalking through this. This is worse even than "Terminator Salvation". Again, I love all types of movies. I am not a movie snob. I just fail to understand how anyone could get ANY enjoyment out of watching this. Watching this, while it was not quite torture, it was an endurance test I would not want to repeat, even thought HBO is now showing this non-stop.