Over hyped - very disappointed

Rating: 5/10 (8 February 2009)

I may of had too high of expectations for this movie. The commercials were really promoting this as a grand slam. My wife and I do not bother to see films on the big screen and usually wait for the DVD. This was to be an exception.
I guess I am a romantic and had hoped to see a turn-around in the protagonist. There was little. If anything, he was an anti-hero. Not even would this movie qualify as a Victorian tragedy for there were no two ships passing in the night. Just one that sunk into the muck.
The story is not one that had to be told. At the end of the movie, I did not feel I was enlightened in any way and that is the mechanism I use to evaluate a film/story. The main character is a looser. I guess there is an audience who perversely delights in seeing man at his lowest but I don't happen to be one of them.