Confused and trying too hard

Rating: 5/10 (7 March 2009)

-Minor Spoilers- I just came back from the theater and I'm pretty unhappy. I like watching my movies with low expectations and if I can ignorant about the plot. Both were the case with this movie. At most I expected a good action movie or a CGI fest.
In summary I've said, confused and trying too hard. I felt this throughout the movie. There are movies that make you uneasy, uncomfortable and confused, but in the end it comes together and hits you in the face while pleasing you in an unusual way. This is not that movie. This is just "what?" A perfect movie is the one you can't take out anything from, without making it worse. You could take lots of things out of this movie, and it would actually get better. Pointless sex scenes, pointless sidetracks, pointless blue genitalia, pointless and dead end side stories... you name it.
Trying too hard. The movie is trying to break grounds, by breaking some clichés. For example, breaking into a computer by guessing password. The character tries to guess, we think he's gonna get it and get ready to cringe, but he can't. Oooh. Surprise. Well he gets it in the third try. Sex scene where the guy can't get it up, trying to be realistic (why?). Meh OK. But then he proceeds to get the ultimate Hollywood lay. It's like the director said "let's break new grounds" without having the need to break them. Just for the heck of it.
OK. Action? Sparse. This is one of the movies with most inner monologue and diegesis. Boring. CGI? Existent. Pretty good. Actors are pretty good overall. especially Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
Watch it with very low expectations and with a lot of time in hand.