Ci-ti-zen

Not much to say, for those who've seen it. Acting is mediocre towards OK at best, for most characters, with only a few moments that could be described as good.

Storyline...also not something that wowed.

Whereas in the last few years, the overall quality of Best Picture has been going down, this one in particular is a outlier by far.

What I did not like in particular? The lack of ingenuity and inspiration when it comes to dialogue...the hard to believe "action" scenes, that I kind of get should have been comedic...but I have barely smiled watching this, let alone laugh. I know my opinion might run contrary to others, but it is my opinion nevertheless.

I watches this mainly because my wife is from Malaysia, and wanted to get a glimpse of those times it portrays.

The story is built like a teenage romance at first, kind of spicy and bordering on the erotic, and totally unbelievable to be happening between a Brit of those times and some half-wild female.

It then goes into tear-jerking drama, this part I honestly found a lot more believable but also quite troublesome and really painful to watch. Seeing the treatment administered to the local population by the colonizing British really turned my stomach, especially since I believe the reality was a lot harsher in some cases.

I think, overall, its worth watching if you are prepared to get frustrated over the intrinsic quality of it as a film, which in my view is quite subpar, and more so on the troubling story it portrays. The 2 main actors play a very dumbed-down version of themselves in other roles, especially Jessica Alba, but its obviously the screenplay writer at fault, she's definitely more capable of acting.

This movie tries to be serious, but to me it was absolutely hilarious. Like trying to combine Airplane! , Die Hard, Indiana Jones, and few others thrown in for good measure. Combine that with some good looking (but not that good at acting!) actors and actresses, and you've got yourself one of the most un-credible movies ever made. But on the other hand I think the movie put itself into the Guinness Book for a truly crazy script, completely outrageous.

If you're asking yourself whether its worth watching it overall, even as comedy, then I'm afraid the answer is no...I could think of many other bad movies that might appear like masterpieces next to this.

2/10, only because I know if I vote 1/10