???? this from the guy who made shawshank redemption????

Rating: 3/10 (24 March 2008)

I'm confused. wasn't the shawshank redemption a good movie?? isn't this the same director??? so what went wrong?? firstly it was lit like a TV sitcom. everyone was brightly lit, even in the night time scenes. Secondly, characters, OK so he's asking us to believe some characters do extreme things, and then for us to consider the impact and compare it to todays world. we'll you'd have to make those characters convincing, believable and understand why they did those things. I'm talking mainly about the preacher religion aspect of the story. If you want us to believe that a group of people would change to the will of a ranting religious extremist in the space of 2 days you're going to have to do better than that. witnessing the halfassed preacher woman character fail at delivering a convincing religious persuader just ruined any mileage the other characters managed.
some of the others were OK. Toby Jones did a good job of his character, and Thomas Jane was also passable except in the end scene.
how ever did this get a rating in the high 7's. anyone who's actually seen it and didn't work on the movie will argue with that figure. 4-5 tops. honestly.