Unengaging, pitiful writing, poor production and bad dialogue

Rating: 4/10 (19 November 2015)

If you are a fan of Gary Ross' previous glistening writing portfolio, you should skip the first hour of this film, and then skip the next hour and 22 minutes as well because by the end you will want to ban him from writing anything ever again. The amount of dragged out nonsense scenes are endless with dull and meaningless dialogue. At any point when some mildly interesting situation arises, it is instantly diminished by shocking camera work and almost infuriating plot development and yet more painful to watch character portrayal.
Anyways, I do understand that this picture is aimed at young girls and that it is a certificate PG-13 or something, but still, a poor piece of work.
And by the way, who the f* is Gary Ross?