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This is the more way these shows should be done. Entertaining, informative, light on drama. It still could be a little more information and a little less "character" for my taste, but it's much better than most.

I'm tired of shows that are supposed to be about practical matters full of artificial deadlines, fake disasters, personal drama, and people who obviously don't know what they're talking about presented as "experts". This show is not free of these things, what reality show is? But there's less than many other shows of this type. They take the time to explain things and follow up on results later.

The problem with movies like this is that you have the people who hate slow, mysterious movies and it's automatically 1 star because there were no car chases or dubstep, and the people that feel they have to defend anything quiet and ambiguous like this and give 9 or 10 stars. "So boring" vs "You just don't get it, man". These types of films always only get 1 or 10 ratings. Really, it's not possible to make a so-so version?

Sometimes people try to make moody, interesting, thought provoking, different kinds of movies and just don't do a great job. This film was right up my alley in every way, but in the end I just said "meh". It wasn't awful, but it did feel a little dull and needlessly drawn out, seemingly because there just wasn't enough to say to fill the time. There also wasn't much to get, really people, it's not that deep or obtuse.

If there had been more eye candy (besides the obvious) I could have dealt with the other weaknesses easier. But I didn't think the visuals were all that interesting as a lot of people seem to. The whole thing was very film school and didn't totally feel like the work of a mature director, but if you told me it was a student film or something a first timer made on credit cards I would have believed you and said "hey nice effort, keep at it".

I would like to give it more than a 4 just because it's totally my kind of film, but it really didn't deserve it, and as I said, that's the problem with these kinds of movies, people voting for what kind of film they like instead of how good this particular one was.

Not a great movie by any means, but I was entertained and I've seen worse. If you want to compare it to "Wild, Wild West" or "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", and in ways you could, I hated both of those movies, so it's a winner there. It certainly could have been better, but I wasn't offended.

Josh Brolin carried the movie, everyone else was along for the ride.

There seems to be a lot of love/hate for Megan Fox, but I don't get it. I think this is the only time I've seen her, but she's not a great actress and isn't amazing eye candy. She's just there. Not the worst actress ever, not the sexiest thing that ever lived. I'm not sure how anyone can get worked up about her either way.

I can't figure out why people pick some movies out to barrage with hate. I can name dozens of movies that were worse. Faint praise, I know.