Wake me up when it's over

Rating: 4/10 (30 August 2014)

It flew beautifully for 40 mins, then it crash landed and did not grow new wings, in fact it crawled and spluttered and clichéd until I wanted to throw the TV out the window. Poor George Clooney worked his acting/looks/talent butt off to make this lot work, but with two of possibly the most unappealing female co-stars in Hollywood to work with, the charisma was all his and the first 40 minutes of the script. Then I think the script writer ran out of clues, humour and forgot why he was writing and went out and got drunk. The two female co-stars... please never let me see them act again. From plain to plain whiny, with insipid oozing from every pore. I can only imagine what good editing and two good co-stars may have made this sad little one-winged bird of a movie... I think it could have been great but by the time they headed into the land of weddings and running out of an opportunity to give the talk of a lifetime to include sentiment, schmaltz and sheer stupidity, I was past throwing popcorn at the screen and cursing the liars who'd given the thing great stars and ratings and the liars of the century.