I liked it but didn't love it.

Rating: 7/10 (25 October 2010)

It's a good movie to watch but try to get all of the hype you have read out of your mind before you watch it.
Be warned, the first five minutes of the movie will nauseate you. I understand that the hand held camera gives the movie a realistic, documentary, gritty quality, but it also gave me motion sickness.
It is almost 2 hrs long. And at times, particularly at the beginning, drags a little. Its not horrible, eventually you will get caught up in the flow of the movie and loose track of time, but if you settled on this instead of an action flick you are gonna regret it.
The ending is a cop out. "It leaves it to the audience to decide where the story goes from there"... bull crap. We just spent 1.5 hrs of our lives being walked through the minutia of this guys life, tie it up and put a bow on it, finish the freaking movie. This isn't some serious thinking movie, that will have you wondering about the implications of the movie ending, one way or the other, with people arguing about the way it should end. Why drag the movie out this long to leave us hanging? This is pointless artsiness, a.k.a. Oscar bait. So it won you an Oscar, but largely ruins the movie for me.