Compentence does not equal quality

Rating: 3/10 (7 March 2009)

While reading through the various reviews and comments concerning this film, there has been only what I can consider a veritable deluge of positive opinions based on misunderstanding. This is not a "Good" movie. It is overly ambitious project for at best a third tier talent. Yes the effects look great and is well cast in general. Jackie Earl Haley and Jeffrey Dean Morgan create fully realized characters out of of a mess of a movie. Despite these positives, the film lacks a consistent tone which renders its downer ending inert.Too many times, you go WTF when there is a crazy tone shift in the movie (Example the music in Sex Scene). Other structural problems exists in lack of backstory and characters arcs. More troubling is the lack of cohesion between the various characters and story lines. This is due no doubt to the massive nature of the film, 6 major characters working over 45 years of US political history, not including all the political themes running throughout. It probably would have been better to stretch this film out over two or three other movies so that the entire story could have been told properly.