sotheran57

We went to see this film at a local cinema as a one night a week Mystery viewing (you don't know what you're getting). We are very keen film goers and I can't remember when we last walked out of a film. But we left this one early - after about an hour so we gave it a chance... It was awful!! The acting, the 'story line' and the monotony of overhyped horror effects. Of course it wasn't real' but the mounting improbabilities and bloomers mad eit almost silly. I suspect that it is a sad reflection on societies expectations of entertainment (I hesitate to say art)and made us wonder how such unadulterated clap trap can get made. But it did get made so someone must like it.

My wife and I have just watched this film at the cinema. We were both unimpressed by it. He whole concept of Harold's walk was contrived to form the basis of a predictable five hundred mile journey on foot. Why didn't he use his car, the train or his bus pass? That would have made the tedium of the journey too brief. How could he walk that kind if distance in the same pair of every day shoes? The people he meets along the way are too 'convenient' or pointless to the plot. His life's background seen through flash backs if totally predictable as is the ending. Only the superb acting of the leads save the day.

I went to see this film with my wife this afternoon and both of us came away with the thought that we had wasted 3 hours of our life!! From the overlong, pointless orgy scene at the beginning to the very end we were wondering what the point was. The story has been told before so very little new was offered. There were large sections that had no relationship to the story and the whole could have been reduced to a couple of hours at most. It was actually boring and had I been on my I would have left before the first hour. I found later that my wife was of the same mind. An example of its 'OTT' delivery was early on in the film. A large pick-up truck carrying an elephant ran away in reverse down a very steep winding track and the two from the vehicle in front ran down the hill and physically stopped the vehicle and its load!! Come on...! The rest of the film is made up of improbable situations. The rattlesnake sequence is right out of Indiana Jones (but Indiana doesn't have any pretences about being credible) I am amazed that anyone with any interest in cinema could give this overblown hodge-podge any credit. My two stars are offered out of kindness.