A Horrible Waste of Time

Rating: 1/10 (14 August 2008)

Out of all the movies i have seen this year only a very few have qualified for my worst films of the year list: Meet the Spartans, 10,000 B.C., The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Wanted, and now you can add Tropic Thunder to that list. I don't know what Ben Stiller was thinking but he wasn't thinking clearly. How can you make a movie with this many hateful jokes against the mentally challenged and expect people to laugh. How can you make a movie start off strong and fast paced but then spend an entire hour with side characters wandering around a jungle slowly walking their way towards a drug camp where one of their friends is being held captive? The second act is pathetically slowly paced and brings the film to a complete and total halt. There are good things about the movie like Tom Cruise's amusing part as a sleazeball studio exec and Ben Stiller playing with a real decapitated head even though he thinks it's prosthetic. These two good things are not enough to save it. Overall skip this entirely in theaters and go watch Mummy 3 instead you'll be far more entertained. What an unfunny embarrassment!