Don't waste your money

Rating: 2/10 (25 February 2007)

This movie didn't seem to know where it was going. An interesting premise was made into a slow, unsurprising movie; the "AHA" moment passed with a yawn. Jim Carrey was pretty good but the director who almost ruined the Batman franchise managed to make him boring. We didn't care enough about the characters to really care what was happening to them. This movie should have had us jumping out of our seats but I nearly fell asleep in the first 30 minutes. And the tempo never picked up.
The cinematography was the best part of the movie: dark and atmospheric, with an almost black-and-white look to the book portions.