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Certainly there are enough reviews on this movie for everyone to know that it's unwatchable. First of all, the directing is the worst that I've seen in a long time. To my bewilderment, 99.9% of the shots are tilted at a certain angle. After a while, it made me almost nauseous. The acting was horrible also. Oh well, you can always count on Hollywood to make messes like this again and again.

I really think that Ebert should start thinking twice before he throws out another one of those "best movie of the year" comments! It certainly does not apply to this movie. The plot is so plain and uninteresting that all the eye-popping and colorful artsy visuals cannot save it. I didn't find the movie pretentious or unrestrained, it's just that there's hardly anything deep to say about it at all. It was fun to watch, but definitely not satisfying to the thinking man.