Thinking Mans Film.... Yeah right.

Rating: 1/10 (14 March 2007)

I really wanted to like this film and I didn't build it up too much in my own mind so I wouldn't be let down if it was just average, but.......it was worse than that.
Anyone who says this is a thinking mans film is wrooooong.
If it was a thinking mans film it would make sense and be coherent.
The film jumps to and fro, to and fro thru time (over a period of c20 years) yet there is no distinction between the periods! NONE WHATSOEVER. Damon starts out at 20 and by the end, 20 years later, he looks 21!!!
The 'stars' Pesci (1scene) DeNiro (3 scenes) appear sporadically and irrelevantly and for the sake of it. There are these small snippets of randomness that appear from nowhere as if to point to a bigger picture. BUT THERE Isn't ONE.
The whole film leads up to Africa (this is where it becomes semi-interesting) with his son in bother. SOMEONE PLEASE PLEASE TELL ME how and why his son was in Africa its absolute nonsense!!!
I think it was a case of a long rambling story when someone thought 'ah darn, this is going nowhere how can we make it interesting it needs to have a point' then someone came up with the idea 'ooh I know we'll put the kid in Africa' someone else said 'but that wont work cos its just random' and then some other bloke says 'it don't matter it will be a 'thinking mans' film and we'll get a big cast and use good acting to cover it up!'
I'm sorry to ramble but I have never ever ever been so disappointed in a film. Urrrrggggh its strung together so randomly and for no reason!!!!!!
The incoherence makes it unbelievable and by the end I just didn't give a monkeys.
IGNORE PEOPLE WHO GAVE THIS ANYTHING MORE THAN 4/10.
Maybe it didn't make sense because I'm from England but then that just says the film is even worse if it doesn't translate.