Jon Voight<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I was waiting for this movie for some time now. I didn’t have great expectations for it, but I thought that it might be interesting. It turned out to very boring and pointless though. There weren’t enough happenning for the 2+ hours that it lasted and the story, being obvious from the very beginning, didn’t help.<\/p>\n
The film as it is lacks identity. It is not an action movie. It is not a drama. It is not a phylosophical piece with food for thought. No points were made. No relationships or circumstances that would play with audience’s emotions. And no entertainment.<\/p>\n
All actors performed quiet well, and there was nothing that they could have added. Character development was very poor and there were many lose ends to the story.<\/p>\n
As things stand, I am glad I saved some money on the cinema tickets.><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
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This post will be the first movie review done in the different way. Since some people complained that I have spoilers and irrelevant stuff sometimes and it is difficult to separate these with one glance from the rest of the review, I decided that I will be splitting movie review posts into brief and full texts. Brief text will contain a link to appropriate IMDB page if any, IMDB rating at the moment of writing, my rating, and celebrity highlight, which is basically a list of well-known people associated with the film. The full text (“Read more” link) will contain the brief part as well as my thoughts, descriptions, spoilers, complains and anything else I might right about the film. This way it will also be possible to read the preferred version in RSS feed too.<\/p>\n