"Stranger in a Strange Land" Meets "Ishtar"

Rating: 2/10 (7 March 2009)

Three hours of talking talking talking and occasional action. This was not merely a bad movie, but the Titanic of stinkers, the Mt Everest of self-indulgent claptrap, a script that must have been the size of two Los Angeles Yellow Pages filled with humorless, pointless dialog. Even the special effects were tacky...they were too pixelated.
I was in Maryland and saw it with a friend not far from DC. It was on three screens at this mall starting every 40 minutes or so, and by the end of the movie I realized why they were doing this: they wanted to get as many people into the theaters before word-of-mouth got out to kill it! ****************************Spoiler after here********************* Oh...and nothing much makes sense in the plot. The uber motive revealed at the end which, in retrospect, is the driver of the plot is ridiculous; Dr. Manhattan is supposed to be profound but turns out to be clueless in more ways than one. If you must see it, wait for HBO--it should be there in two weeks.