linear-descent

The pacing is so painfully slow. Not methodical, because that means it's building to something, but just slow and tedious. I kept waiting for something to happen to engage me in the movie but nothing ever came.

The first 45 minutes of this film is really well done. Very intriguing, great character development and background, interesting concept about time travel and choosing who is allowed to travel in order to prevent any kind of paradox, and just overall good script writing. Then it starts to get a little ridiculous, and then a little more, and then even more, until the movie and plot become so ridiculously cartoonish that everything just unravels and you just can't enjoy it anymore. It starts off great sci-fi but finishes as a joke. Remember a few years ago when some woman tried to touch up that painting of Jesus in a Spanish church and totally botched it up? This movie script is just like that where it was good and then someone else must've got a hold of it and ruined it.

Now I'm not one of those people that complain that a sci-fi movie isn't following the usual rules of physics, and I will grant the sci-fi writer tremendous leeway for entertainment purposes, but there is a point where it gets so ridiculous that the movie is no longer enjoyable.

Like most summer blockbuster action movies, there's some ridiculousness built in so you just turn your brain off and enjoy the ride. You realize that you're not watching a Best Picture candidate and it should be just mindless entertainment. Well, even with my brain turned completely off this ride was really hard to enjoy. If it wasn't for the well written first 45 minutes, I'd rate this 1 star.

I turned it off when 40 minutes into the movie and neither my wife nor I had yet to emit a single chuckle or frankly, even break a smile. How could this be so unfunny? So much potential!

I thought for sure when maybe the movie goes and "revisits" the barbershop that there would be at least some funny stuff there, but nope. This was absolutely atrocious. And painful. And not even worth watching because it's bad and campy.

No, this movie is just bad. You have much better things to do with your life than waste any of it watching this. I've gotten more out of life sitting and waiting at the DMV lost in my own thoughts than in the 40 minutes I spent watching this.