16 Stones

It has been a while since I've seen this movie, but a friend and I were talking about it, and I was curious to see what kind of rating it had on IMDb. I generally consider this the worst movie I've ever seen in a theater--not content-wise but for acting and directing and plot and everything else that makes you want to watch a movie.

I'm pretty forgiving of locally made LDS-themed movies, but this one was pretty bad. At first the premise seemed pretty good--National Treasure set in an LDS setting. Sadly, it totally failed at being that. And it wasn't anything to do with the authentic clothing, good sets, and decent editing. I couldn't in good conscience give it a 1 because at least someone on the set did try to do something right.

I wasn't the only one who couldn't believe how bad this movie was. There were three couples in the movie theater to start off with. The other two couple walked out at various points during the movie because it was so bad. We talked about doing the same, only deciding to sit through to the end because we didn't want to go home just yet to put our kids to bed.

I love to support local movies, but they've got to do much better than this.