Such potential but truly turned out to be waste of time.  Don't even bother.....
921252
This movie had such potential but there was no real story. Just Scarlett driving around seducing men and then they walk into the black goo and die and repeat.  There is almost no dialogue in this movie and what dialogue there is has NO substance.  I only finished watching it thinking there would eventually be some sort of story but nope.
2305738
It only took a few hours out of my life to read it.  I kept hoping for it to go somewhere....gimme a clue! In the beginning, it was hopeful, but never actually got to the point of really anything. No character development. No real plot. No nothing. Too vague. This could have been an emotional story, but it just left me saying WTF.
3901087
**********spoilers*************

Boring, pretentious and depressing. So the dude would rather off himself than continue living. I understand that. Maybe that's even reality but so are a lot of things and we turn a blind eye to them. This was a waste of time.
3363708
Good thing it was free.  The reviews comparing this author to Tolkien and Martin are just laughable.  The plot was ridiculous and rife with fantasy cliches.  Let's see....a coming-of-age boy who is obviously not the son of his father....he accidentally finds out he has magical powers....goes to a castle....enters training to be a knight....makes friends or enemies instantaneously...an important girl falls in love with him upon sight....there is a plot to kill the king....and all of this literally happens in about a week.  Yeah, that pretty much covers most of the fantasy cliches known to mankind (other than riding a dragon, which could happen at any time at the rate this kid is gaining magical pets).  The thing that probably bothered me the most is that whenever Thor makes a friend he immediately "knows" that they will be a friend for life, and everything good that happens to him is either the best or biggest thing he has ever seen/experienced in his life.  And oh, the grammatical and spelling errors.  Don't get me started.

That's not to say the book doesn't have redeeming qualities.  Fight scenes are well depicted, and the author is pretty good at painting a descriptive picture of the various woodland, town, castle, and other settings.  There is a pretty robust array of characters.  They are stock characters, but they aren't necessarily one-dimensional.  The story has promise if (AND ONLY IF) a good editor gets a hold of this.  For those reasons, I gave it 2 stars instead of 1.  I MIGHT read the 2nd book just to see if it goes anywhere.
2291255
So bad and sophomoric that I kept watching it wasting time. Watched until the end, just glad it was a free one.
4112255
There is a huge vacancy in character development. The whole book is put forth in such a way that I found it impossible to suspend disbelief. The copy editing was flawless, but someone surely should have recognized that there seriously needed to be more time spent fleshing out  the details to make this a real story. I downloaded this title for free with no stipulations and consider it to be a waste of time and storage space.. I will place this author on my personal do not read list. At his age one would think that he would be capable of reading his own work and realize when it is as half baked as this is and withhold it from publication.
4322547
I don't know what book the other reviewers read but it wasn't the same one I just finished.  It was such a task getting through it, the only reason it got 1 star is because it had an interesting premise.  Unfortunately, the book did not live up to the premise, like an idea that never gets shared.  There wasn't an ounce of warmth, let alone heat, between the main characters. Their attraction was totally unbelievable as was the entire story. As a matter of fact, the whole book was completely void of any emotions. It was like the romance was injected as an afterthought, and with no thought. No sex appeal for any of the characters. And what mystery? It was such a convoluted story, trying to throw you off with all these red herrings, but anyone who has every read a decent romantic thriller before will not be fooled for a moment. This was a first-time Sophmoric essay that was 250 pages too long. Don't waste your time or your money.

SPOILER ALERTS COMING....

!!!!!!!BIG SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And, please, give me a break, after thinking their dad was dead for 5 years they're gonna pause, look stunned, and then throw themselves into his arms without a tear, a heartfelt speech, anger over the betrayal --- nothing? His excuses are totally implausible but they don't call him on it. Then they find out the bad guy killed their mom, instead of it being an accident, and her daughters show no feelings nor does it motivate them to act? Or what about the heroine being faced with her nemisis after hating and wanting revenge on him for 5 years - and she barely gets upset? Yech!
3053350
This book could have been great. It had strong possibilities of a story about upward mobility and what race may mean in relationship to technology. Some sentences were beautiful and well crafted. The characters were flat. No one was believable. The world was oversimplified into just two races, white and black. What a shame, don't waste your time...
1470115
This had the potential to really amount to something.  Good premise, but the author either ran out of steam or couldn't figure out how to link the computer game story line into the codex story line.  What was the purpose?  It was really a distraction rather than an enhancement.  Has to be one of the worst endings I ever read.  I went back and reread the last pages trying to figure out if I missed something or if there were pages missing. It wasn't just a "twist", it was a letdown at best and a non-ending at the worst.  Do not waste your time ...
4559694
The simplicity and silence of the movie may qualify it for a "noire" categorization but I have to say whatever money they spent producing this movie was completely wasted.
This was just plain boring and pointless. The first scene started off with potential, leading the viewer to believe there was some thrillingly intense evil plot abound and George Clooney was the hero who was going to figure it all out. That thought ends very very quickly however.  If you don't want the movie to be spoiled JUST IN CASE you might want to waste 2 hours of your life then I'll just say save your time for a movie who's writer actually took the time to create a plot or even a tiny bit of substance, because this movie had neither.
*The only decent thing about this movie was that the scenery was nice

*******SPIOLER ALERT******
For those of you who take my advice but want to know why it was so terrible here's what happened:
Random Swedeish assassins are tracking Clooney. He's on the move, contacts his old "boss" who says he has another job, and tells him where to hide out from the swedes. Then you find out Clooney is a custom gun maker (big deal). Then the entire middle of the movie is Clooney (in silence, I don't remember any background music to help move it all along) making the gun and dating a hooker, and a few random appearances of a guy who's following him. The conclusion is that the old boss who set Clooney up with this job actually commissoned it himself and is having Clooney build the gun that's going to be used to murder Clooney. (Was that supposed to be ironic poetry?) You never find out why this boss wants to have him killed or why a gun maker is leading a dangerous spy's life. The fact that he's American, other than a few mentions from characters he meets, has absolutely nothing to do with the movie. But, then again, I guess in a movie about nothing why should the title be relevant?
3726243
I really wish we'd stopped after the first five minutes, but we were sure it would get better. It didn't. It only got worse. Complete waste of time and money. Bad script, poorly acted. Seriously.
3181152
This movie threw together so many "climax elements" from the beginning that it seemed all forced and just horrible. I knew in the first :08 minutes that when it the antagonist Jonathan came on the scene so heavy and early, you had to wonder where is the movie going to go from here? It was all downhill from there. The only reason I even completed the movie after 10 minutes was because my girlfriend insisted. Don't waste your time. It got 20% on Rotten Tomatoes. That you should tell you everything you need to know.
135364
I found this book so boring. It had potential so I skimmed through it hoping to get to the good part, but it never came. I liked the main characters but I felt there needed to be a lot more sexual tension between them. Out of the 256 pages, the first kiss was on page 167 (66% into the book!!), and they first had sex on page 171, whereby she climaxes almost as soon as he enters her.?? It kinda didn't really ring true. Now if HE had done that...then, yes, I could have maybe bought it - though that's not not the way it works in romance novels.

I found it very hard to believe that the old man trusted this nurse with a valuable secret/device and let her time travel back to his real time just because she was adventurous and loved hiking. That premise was very weak.

Once Aimee was thrown back two hundred years (she took the shock very well), she was just annoying and silly. She did not even attempt to fit in with the language and customs of the time - not a hard thing to do for an intelligent, modern woman who is trying to fit in. And she kept getting annoyed about the way women were treated as property even though everyone who did History at school, (and even those who didn't) is well acquainted with how women were treated a few decades ago let alone two centuries ago. And yet, in her own time, she had just broken off an engagement because she finally realised her guy was a controlling and smothering her. I'm sorry, but if you are so adventurous and independent and modern, you do not become engaged to a man who treats women that way.

There was almost no dialogue until the last third of the book, and when it finally started, it felt stilted, rushed and unauthentic.

And her friends took her sudden return to the present time too easily, even though she had disappeared suddenly, and irresponsibly (re work and friends) and there was a missing persons report made.

As other reviewers said, it was a good story idea but it needed to be strengthened and sorted out a lot better. This was more like a first draft, without the hard work of second, third etc drafting. I took the time to write a review because it is always an achievement to write an entire book.
3446361
This book had no plot. The characters were flat and uninteresting, and the writing style was lifeless. The worst part of the whole this was that it had so much potential. I read the sample and thought that bit was great, but it went down hill fast from there. In what was supposedly to be a romance novel there was no romance. Sure there's a girl and a guy and they kind of like each other, but that's about it. I had to push myself to finish the book and when I did I didn't even care if they got together. I was just glad the book was finally over. There was nothing I liked about this book at all. That it could have been good just makes it more of a let down. I wish I could give it zero stars.
1860958
This was just a waste of time. Unbelievably wooden dialogue, bland characters, and the big reveal.... well, who did what was obvious from the start. I can safely say that I haven't read a more unimpressive book in a while. Read at your own risk.
565686
Okay.  There is so much to dislike about this movie that I could go on and on.

Short version: Don't waste your money until its free on Amazon Prime.

Reg version: Actors, plot, plot holes, stereotypes, predictable all of them sucked.  The story's premise was interesting and could have been written/produced much better.  Really it was like watching a straight to dvd/vhs low budget movie.  No it wasn't even that good, at least then, sometimes, it can be funny but this movie blew.

AVOID!!!!! Believe me, I prevented myself from watching it.  I was skeptical but then I was bored and said "what the heck, may be it'll be decent"  no it wasn't.  I would have been better off twiddling my thumbs for an 1 and a half.
2495173
Okay so the premise is interesting. You WANT it to be good. But guess what? It just isn't! I feel like this book just totally failed to come together and failed to be interesting.

For the overall premise, this really could have been good. Big time fail.