I never go with only one review, but I do wonder what the point is of this quote...
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Worse, when the crew find themselves in a nighttime Venice (everything occurs at night in this film in a transparent attempt to camouflage the godawful CGI background mattes) and a character calls out, "Hurry up, we need to find the bomb," the only response is first the very reasonable, "What bomb," followed by the sad realization that they're going to have a hard time finding this bomb because they're all starring in it.
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A) IS that the reason for the night settings, or just a personal connection that in some way comments on the CGI without actually saying what was bad with it.
B) Skip the sidebar CGI bash and look at the content of the sentence..."Worse...when a character [says something]...the response is...very reasonable...followed by [my personal opinion that the film sucks]."
How is that an example of why the film is bad, what about that is "worse"? It's not. In fact, he just COMPLIMENTED the actual point he brought up. Sheesh, some of these net critics need a writing course so they can be untaught the "hip speak" of AICN-style blurb-centric reviews that are meant to quote well without really saying anything.
Let me say that it could be that this review will eventually represent the sum total of opinions of the film. I just found that quote very annoying and also noticed a bit of a comic reader angle brought to it. Some of the problems he points out sound like very standard narrative script devices/motifs which signal key character moments to the average audience, whom we might forgive for not reading up on their Wells and Wilde one hundred years later.
However, his final paragraph is much more specific in discussing problems and his record on films for this year mostly comes close to agreeing with me, though his opinion of GONY, 25th Hour, Hours, and Chicago don't exactly line up.
In the end, I would call this a bad early sign too. I hope he was just sour to the idea being a reader of the novel or just not into the style of the film, rather than the film actually being not just bad, but awful.
Who do we believe, Dugger or this guy? For the sake of a good time, let's hope it's Dugger.
