there will be ehh!

Rating: 5/10 (8 January 2008)

I'd be so tempted to give this movie a one, just because i want to even out the ridiculously overrated ratings in IMDb. However i wanna be fair to say that there are a few redeeming moments in the movie. having said that, i truly believed this movie could have been somewhere if it were handled by a capable director with a true vision. Too bad it is misdirected and the acting choices are baffling (what's up with the accent yo?), the writing were lifeless and it sucked the humanity out of all the characters (even the extras don't look that convincing), the photography and lighting is alright, although outdated and cliché (ooh the brooding character is in the dark and the good ones is in the light), last but not least is the score, helmed by radiohead's johnny greenwood, that could single handedly ruin the movie if everything else in the movie was well done. It was distracting, instead of creating a layer of nuance and emotion, it created just plain annoyance. A score should elevate and compliment a movie, not jump away from it. And because i read that the radiohead guy was gonna do the score before i saw it, i immediately was worried it's gonna stand out too much. And it did.
And then there's the length. At mere three hours you would think you would get a kick-ass character developments, but what you get is just crazy characters getting crazier without delving much into their emotional complexity, it fell very cartoonish much like the tom cruise character in magnolia. and i wish the ending is raining frogs but instead we're treated to a cheap flash forward and a puddle of of blood. Because the title is there will be blood, oy vay.