Michael's Movie Grade: F
Review: Horrible and annoying movie that gives you nothing to care about.
This film has horribly thought out characters. These characters either have bland movie stereotypes for a personality or no personality at all. Somehow even weaker than this is the story. The story is a rambling piece of nonsense that is no where near as smart as this movie seems to think it is. The story tries to be philosophical, but doesn't seem to even understand what it is trying say.
Even worse still is the technical filmmaking behind this. This has what may be the worst music score I have ever heard. It is so loud and distracting that even if this movie gave me something to enjoy I couldn't enjoy it. The music seemed to never fit with the action on screen, and was just so noisy as to be distracting. I had to cover my ears during parts of this movie it was so bad. The pacing is also very bad (though it can't even compare to the horrible score), the whole film is just going by much too fast. It never gives us time to breath or think. It seems to think that if it stands still for a second that the audience would be bored, while this pacing gives an even greater sense of boredom. To make this even worse the camera never stands still. This just makes the movie even more frustrating and obnoxious.
Some people talking after I saw the movie, said that they tried to fit too much of the video game story into an under two hour movie. Having never played the game I don't know if they are right, but maybe they should have adapted less of the story and gave it more time, or even better yet never made this horrible excuse for a movie in the first place.
Also this movie has the strangest McGuffin I've ever seen.
-Michael J. Ruhland
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