Not very good is an understatement

Rating: 3/10 (7 August 2010)

Boring. This film is a hype. I agree with critics talking about sheep like behaviour of people who tell us they like the film. One critic talked about the emperor's new cloths; again I agree. Very quickly I lost my interest. The makers of the film gave me the feeling they were far more busy trying to create art than create a good film. The film for me was one of those products you would see in one of those obscure film houses where a small group of wannabe artists and critics convince themselves of the value of the film. Having seen Day-Lewis in a number of films now, I must admit I wonder why people admire him and his performances. Every time I had the feeling DDL was focused on trying to be somewhere in between Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan. But I never felt in any film he was trying to play the character in the film.