Obviously to those that read the book there are no surprises here. I kind of knew what was going to happen from the very beginning, but I was still a little in disbelief at the end. A very depressing movie that entertains as well as any movie can. Great acting out of Leo, Ruffalo, and Kingsley
I haven't seen Harry Potter movies....any of them, so I guess that is what this movie is most related to. It also steals a page from the original "Clash of the Titans", I'm sure of which none of the current moviegoers will have seen, since it was made so long ago. A skinny nerd can be a hero through the use of CGI....A lot of CGI. OK story. I guess I just miss the movies when a hero looks and acts like a hero, instead of a brat with a overinflated sense of self entitlement.
The lighting and mood are awesome. If you watched this on a DVD, you would lose most of the lighting effects. You have to see this in a theater to appreciate it.
Not much substance in this movie. It wasn't serious enough to be taken seriously, and it wasn't funny enough to be a comedy. It has a decent cast. Napoleon and Pedro are always good in my book.
Not much of a plot, for a movie based on a book. Some parts seem drawn out and other parts are forced in and don't seem to fit. The pace of this movie seems to be off. Chick flick/date movie at best.
Enough gunfights and suspense to be better than "The Edge of Darkness". It is pulled off with enough of the style of Travolta to separate itself from the pack. It is short, but not lacking in any department. Keeps trucking and the plot is pretty easy to follow. Better than one might extract from the previews. See this instead of that Mel Gibson stuff.
I like how most of the plot ended up not being settled. It really left everything "up in the air". This movie was pretty good and seemed to play off of the current economic hardships in the real world.