I was so looking forward to this movie and went to the theater with my mom (who loves to share this type of movie experience with me cause she shares my love or this type of movie) with excitement.
Oh the disappointment. It was mediocre at best and while the whole movie going experience (popcorn, coke, previews, excitement) was not bad the movie itself left a lot to be desired.
I've been trying to sum up why this movie was a letdown and I think that it can be summed up thus, lacking in interesting plot and heart.
The plot is the same, done to death plot done (better) by many-a fantasy and action/adventure movie and does little to stray from the formulaic. Because of this I found myself 1. predicting what was going to happen accurately, and 2. not really caring to discover how the plot developed in the film.
The heart could have saved this and that was the big fail here. From the onset the movie did little to inspire the audience in its beauty, little to get the audience engaged in the journeys of the characters, and very little to make the audience care about the characters. There was no heart in any of these characters nor between any of them and the movie itself felt like someone had replaced its heart with a computer chip that delivered the story line rote.
I almost found myself bored at certain points and my mom was disappointed too (and that's saying something since in my family my mom is famous for loving awful movies).
It is hard to believe that Julianne Moore and Jeff Bridges could deliver such flat uninspiring characters, but they did. That coupled with a simplistic boring plot and an overall lack of heart or inspiration made this quite the disappointment.
Oh the disappointment. It was mediocre at best and while the whole movie going experience (popcorn, coke, previews, excitement) was not bad the movie itself left a lot to be desired.
I've been trying to sum up why this movie was a letdown and I think that it can be summed up thus, lacking in interesting plot and heart.
The plot is the same, done to death plot done (better) by many-a fantasy and action/adventure movie and does little to stray from the formulaic. Because of this I found myself 1. predicting what was going to happen accurately, and 2. not really caring to discover how the plot developed in the film.
The heart could have saved this and that was the big fail here. From the onset the movie did little to inspire the audience in its beauty, little to get the audience engaged in the journeys of the characters, and very little to make the audience care about the characters. There was no heart in any of these characters nor between any of them and the movie itself felt like someone had replaced its heart with a computer chip that delivered the story line rote.
I almost found myself bored at certain points and my mom was disappointed too (and that's saying something since in my family my mom is famous for loving awful movies).
It is hard to believe that Julianne Moore and Jeff Bridges could deliver such flat uninspiring characters, but they did. That coupled with a simplistic boring plot and an overall lack of heart or inspiration made this quite the disappointment.