stevenwsteiner

Even the wonderful acting of Hanks, Tucci, McBride and Luna, and superb direction of Spielberg couldn't save this films shallow, contrived, cliche to cliche script. Wow what a failure. And could the ending have been more...useless? And who wrote the ending? This movie failed to portray clearly, confidently, or with any conviction any of the emotions we wish to experience during a dramatic adventure. Love, envy, friendship, greed, desire all half baked into a lukewarm, bland, saccharine sweet pie.

Also you might want to question the validity of the imdb voting considering 110 people gave this movie a 10 (Highly unlikely) and the next closest category only 29 people gave it a 9. It seems that many studio marketing executives need to take a class or two in statistics if they plan on cheating. This is the most blatantly obvious vote loading I have ever seen. Naughty Naughty!

With shallow, unmotivated, undeveloped, characters and a contrived, predicatable, pointless, plot I found it difficult to not walk out of the film. Each scene brought increasing bewilderment about how this movie got made or why the several high profile actors would agree to do such a film. The film simply had an unbelievable story, and no substance of any kind. It was well acted as you would expect from the level of talent in the film but wow what a boring movie!

Wow was that annoying. Like being forced to switch between three children's television shows continuously . I stood up and walk out after 50 minutes. Three bad stories edited in parallel do not make 1 good story it just makes all three more boring. Production value and direction are superb and the performances

are what you would expect from some of the best in Hollywood, but great actors and beautiful lighting cannot make a boring story interesting.