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Like some say, this film is watchable but don't expect much.

Unoriginal story. Badly acted. Script was all over the place... started out slow but came to the climax (at least I think?) out of nowhere. If this wasn't the climax, I don't think the movie truly had one then... the acting left a lot to be desired. I was hoping for much more storytelling and something new or different, since this story has been told in many variations.

To think, money (a lot too) was spent making this film and it's just merely "watchable". They took no risks, nothing exciting happened/or was different in this.

Save yourself a view and watch something from the 90's that was produced with more effort. Literally lookup similar movies and you'll find something, I'm sure.

Patrick Wilson couldn't even save this film.

Downright boring and the story was dull. The film was too jumpy and didn't stick to telling a single story. Characters were used without a complete understanding of their importance to the story. There didn't really seem to be an understanding of what story was being told, felt very confused and lost (nothing ironic there).

The screenwriters should have spent more time writing a more fleshed out script where we got to know characters a little better and casting should have spent more time getting actors who could do something with the material.

This was overall a major disappointment.

Okay, let's start here... the movie was too long. Excessively long. The movie did not need to be longer than 2 hours. A good 1 hour 45-50 minutes would have been plenty of time to tell this story and give the characters their story.

With that out of the way, I thought the actors did a fantastic job at telling this story. The story was dry in places and could have been cut down (which would have helped the runtime), but the character development made sense and were portrayed well throughout the film. I'm torn about the soundtrack, a part of me feels like it was distracting at times. But then again, apart of me feels this is the directors "stamp" on their films.

Overall, the film was good; but not one I'd watch again. The story was slow and the movie was too long and therefore not epic enough to justify the runtime.