akuma587 on 28 February 2009
Frankly, I felt the same way. I thought the story was really predictable, melodramatic, and anticlimactic. The first half of the movie was the best.
The main actor was just plain bad. He acted like he had Down's Syndrome.
The cinematography was great. The screenplay I am sure was pretty inventive. The atmosphere of the movie was good. But the story was lacking in a lot of ways. For how "original" the movie was supposed to be the story and the love story were certainly not original. I thought the love story in particular was almost painfully bad.
But I've seen much worse movies win the Best Picture Award, so I am not too upset. It was probably in the Top 3 best movies this year regardless of its flaws.
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