I want my 3 hours back

Rating: 3/10 (10 March 2009)

Excruciating movie. Long, tiresome, and a bore.
Weak acting and lifeless characters limit what might've been a promising message. Since the story lacks palpable emotional impact - learning the parentage of one "hero" is supposed to be more climactic than the destruction of most of the world's big cities, for instance - the desperate director repeatedly resorts to the sound of bones cracking and the sight of them splintering through skin to impress the audience. There's only so much bludgeoning I can take. And the Koyaanisqatsi soundtrack (Philip Glass) was only too apt; yet another reminder that this was a long, pointless journey to nowhere. In the end, I felt like Dr Manhattan - I didn't care about these people, this universe, or what any of it had to say.
And worst of all, this movie was no fun at all.