Not for most people

Rating: 4/10 (19 February 2013)

The only reason I watched this movie was because my younger brother, who thinks of himself as a bit of an intellectual, said it was the best movie he's ever seen. I had no pre-determined notions as I had not even read a review of it first. The only reason I give it as high a score as '4' is because Hugh Jackman is pretty hot, and I love any kind of stories involving history. It's just as well my husband (a Bruce Willis/Chevy Chase fan) didn't watch this because he would have been utterly lost in the first 10 minutes. That's about the time too, that I realized it was going to be an awful movie. Boring, confusing, surreal artsy-fartsy nonsense. I could have understood the Spanish story line and the Tom Cleo storyline, but adding in the (what I now know from reading reviews, was suppose to portray the far future)space travel, was just too bizarre. I didn't feel that the point of the movie had been made. If I were in high-school and had been MADE to watch this movie and comment, I would have proclaimed what I think the movie meant to say (die gracefully, mortality, blah, blah, blah) and pray I was right. Give me "Pirates of the Caribbean" or "The Family Stone" over this movie, any day.