Well, I don’t have a ton to say about this one. It was as cheesy as a double cheese pizza, with a stuffed crust. The dialogue was pretty bad, not funny bad just kind of stiff and obvious. Even Taylor Lautner’s charm was no match for it. You may remember I mentioned in my blog about “Drive” not needing obvious dialogue or exposition, this movie was the complete opposite of that. All of the dialogue was over explanatory and just, Duh!! That is so obvious!
The acting in general was kind of flat, but I think that may have been a result of the bad writing. Sigourney Weaver, and Alfred Molina, both fine performers were not that interesting. The love interest, played by Lily Collins (Phil Collins’ daughter) seemed to be channeling Lindsey Lohan, or at least she stole her hair. All of her acting seemed to be done with her eyebrows.
The actions scenes were pretty good, but the story lacked mystery. They pretty much told you everything early in the movie. The only thing that was really intense about the movie was Taylor and Lilly making out a bit hot and heavy. It was actually a little jarring, how hot the kissing scenes were amidst all the rest of the blahness, it made them seem a bit inappropriate, especially if the audience was meant to be the “Twilight” crowd, which is what it seemed to be made for.
In the end everything about this movie was just too obvious, the dialogue, the music, even some of Lautner’s gestures seem overdone or over calculated. The story was totally forgettable; I had lost most of it before I even left the theatre. I like Taylor Lautner, he is awfully pretty, but even that was not enough to save this film from it’s bad script.
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