Believe me, I've stopped watching movies part way through before...but never in a theater. There's always the hope that the movie will eventually be worth my money. However, this particular movie was the exception.
I walked out at the two hour mark. I don't do a lot with my life, but I knew I could find a better way to spend that last half hour than staring stupidly at the movie screen as my brains slowly dribbled out of my ears. I think I ate ice cream instead. Time well spent. To this day I have no idea how the movie ended, and I have not a shred of curiosity about the subject. I'm only writing this in the hopes of saving a few people a few dollars.
So what is wrong with this movie? It never inspires anything but apathy. I did not care what happened to the characters, the plot, any of it. I had a vague desire to see everyone die, just because they were that uninteresting. The majority of the main characters were miscast and completely unbelievable in their roles. The plot was tedious and stupid. I could go on, but the mere memory of the movie makes my brain turn into mush.
Understand that I'm coming at this film from a history perspective....I love history, I love Middle Eastern history especially, I even have degrees in these fields, but even my interest in the subject could not overcome the horrendously insipid nature of this film. It's not the subject matter, but simply the movie's failure to captivate the audience and its complete lack of brains that makes this movie unwatchable.
I walked out at the two hour mark. I don't do a lot with my life, but I knew I could find a better way to spend that last half hour than staring stupidly at the movie screen as my brains slowly dribbled out of my ears. I think I ate ice cream instead. Time well spent. To this day I have no idea how the movie ended, and I have not a shred of curiosity about the subject. I'm only writing this in the hopes of saving a few people a few dollars.
So what is wrong with this movie? It never inspires anything but apathy. I did not care what happened to the characters, the plot, any of it. I had a vague desire to see everyone die, just because they were that uninteresting. The majority of the main characters were miscast and completely unbelievable in their roles. The plot was tedious and stupid. I could go on, but the mere memory of the movie makes my brain turn into mush.
Understand that I'm coming at this film from a history perspective....I love history, I love Middle Eastern history especially, I even have degrees in these fields, but even my interest in the subject could not overcome the horrendously insipid nature of this film. It's not the subject matter, but simply the movie's failure to captivate the audience and its complete lack of brains that makes this movie unwatchable.
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