Title: How much does pointless cost nowadays?
Product review: This is the sloppiest excuse for epic filmmaking that I've seen. Truthfully I'm not bothered by the inaccuracies of films like this or U-571. They're 'based' on things, not anything else. I recognize the need for consolidation and composite characters to keep things flowing dramatically. However that's where i thought this movie failed horribly. It didn't keep things moving. It moved from set piece to set piece without once being interesting to me or provocative. Heath Ledger was horribly ineffective, especially after hearing all the buzz on his breakout performance. His romantic scenes were forced and misplaced, only serving to set us up for a tragic event later in the film. Again, I'm all for foreshadowing, but how about a little ambiguity, huh? I just kept wondering how they could have spent a reported ($) million on this shoddy, poorly photographed and horrifically uneffective film. Far and away my least favorite Mel Gibson film since Air America.
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