Great Motion Picture with Hilarious Regional Accents

Rating: 7/10 (8 April 2016)

As a New Englander I'm probably more sensitive to regional accents than others, but this movie had me rolling in the aisles laughing. It seems like only one quarter of the cast got their accents right and the rest of them fumbled through, sounding like a mix between Valley Girl and Goodfellas. It's too bad, because I really enjoyed the movie. It has everything an action movie should have: sappy love interest, tension, drama, and enormous scary stuff. But the spoken lines put this production on a whole new level of disaster movie.
I think they gave up on letting the Australian actor Eric Bana try to emulate a Down East dialect and switched him over to a southern accent, with amazingly dismal results. When he's not drawling the wrong word endings, he's reverting back to an Aussie outback bush bogan or something. I guess it all has to do with how an actor is able to interpret a character, but his performance is positively schizophrenic.
What is especially disconcerting is when an actor or actress nails the accent right on, as Rachel Brosnahan does in her role of Bea Hansen. It becomes quite obvious which members of the cast spent some time learning to pronounce their lines and which of them decided to mumble their way through the parts they couldn't get right. This is a perfect example of the current derailed Hollywood machine; over budget, zero schedule and maximum apathy. It's too bad because this is a great motion picture, best viewed with subtitles.