Disappointed

Rating: 4/10 (3 May 2014)

Before I get serious I'll say this was a nice movie. It was interesting and fun to watch, but at times the movie lost me with character development. I think overall, it could have been better and shows "Ben Stiller's influence" as he was the director. I like Ben Stiller but he shouldn't have been directing this movie but I did like his acting.
I did not like the writing though and I found the moment when the character throws away the wallet completely out of character. It was a poor decision and only a vehicle to create drama. Any time I can predict the ending of the movie within the first 1/3rds of the movie the writing is poorly done. I actually predicted at the moment the characters were looking for negative #25 I said to my family, "It's in the wallet". Doh.
I haven't read the original short story but from what I can see on Wikipedia it appears to be a much better story and I'm looking forward to reading it.
Over all I can't give this movie high marks and I'll never want to own it on DVD.
Directing 0 Acting 1 Cinematography 1 Soundtrack 1 Script -1
Overall 2/5