WTH 20 minutes into the film and nothing even happened ...
922830
WTH 20 minutes into the film and nothing even happened. If you wanted to watch a movie on how to scrub the floors this would be it.
2453673
Awful! This movie was not able to retain my attention to follow the storyline. The first 30 minutes seemed so boring, made no sense- slow script- had to turn it off halfway. Can i get a refund?
89283
Ok, I'll mention the few brief moments I actually enjoyed from this movie.  The time travel scenes were decent, but still boring.  There just wasn't enough energy in the movie, I just can't escape that.  Maybe it seemed like everyone was moving along at a half-hearted pace.

Ok, I have to say a good part, um...ok, when they fired that trebuchent (spelling, who knows), and it was a pretty neat visual of the first flaming fireball.  Then they fired back that "magical" greek fire arrow.  The commander guy goes "Oh my god," and there's an ok scene of the catapult bursting into flames, and then he says "you are a magician!"  That was neato for about 1 minute and 3 seconds.  Then back to the same boring slow moving uninspired plodding story line.  Who cares if they get back, I was yawning.

They made one last decent philosophical point at the very end about how one makes his own destiny in history.  The message at first is impressive, but then it gets worse every moment you think about it.  Hmm, time travel back to the past, die of some horrible condition only found in the 1300's (whatever the date).

I'll bet that guy would've been there for like 1 year, and then died of some black plague or something.  I want to cry how unrealistic it is.  From having his ear chopped off itself would've probably killed him from infection, oh but it is all worth it for the lovely Mary Ann or whoever that was.  What about excessive bleeding?  Um, nah that doesn't happen in real life.  I hope the sex was good for the total of 2 days before he got beheaded for being a heretic.

Heartfelt until you remember the real world, and then you realize that everyone still walked around half-heartedly in the movie, but they wore such neat costumes!!  Stick to highlander, get the hell away from this retarded movie.  It was entertaining for about 5% of the time.

Maybe reading the book, I read it is based on, will erase this from my memory.  I hope a wormhole forms and I can stop this movie from being produced so poorly.
1546877
I was given this movie as a birthday gift and was very excited to watch it.  From the award hype plus the description of the film, it seemed like it might be one of those movies which goes beyond the screen and actually touches the audience.
It doesn't.  Instead, it was one of those movies that was so bad that you feel as if you have lost that 1 hr and 43 minutes of your life.  How bad is it?  The acting was unmoving and stiff - though I can't really blame the actors, as the script offers nothing at all to work with.  Very limited dialogue combined with poorly developed, unsympathetic characters and a frustrating lack of coherent direction makes this movie drag unlike any other film I have ever experienced.
I kept fighting the urge to shut it off, thinking that at some point SOMETHING vaguely interesting or entertaining would happen, but it continued to drag on and on, aimlessly, mindlessly...
Then, mercifully, it ended.  My wife picked up the DVD and threw it in the trash without a word to me about it.
This is ABSOLUTELY an instance of Hollywood hyping a movie and the general public flocking to it and pretending to like it because they think it is supposed to be good.  PLEASE save yourself the disappointment and don't waste your time.
938207
I'm not sure how such bland films can get high remarks on amazon. I got fooled once when I checked out "Them"(see that review) and I thought that would be the last of it. Your not fooling me twice I thought no way! So many good reviews and remarks about the film this has to be worth watching...I couldn't have been more wrong.

This movie has such terrible pacing that you'll feel bored out of your mind while watching than anything else. The characters over dramatize every word they say and every action they take. This film could of easily been 60 minutes long if they condensed all that. The first 70 minutes of the film is spent... I'm not sure what to say nothing really happens here. You pretty much watch how the main character lives his life and try to figure out if he's lost his sanity or not.

The later half of the movie moves even slower as you watch the climax...sloooooowly build itself up. Matter of fact it's so slow by the time it happens you pretty much can tell what is going on and what's going to happen. To be honest if you get to 40minutes in this movie and can't figure out everything by than... I'm not sure what to tell you. It's not a good thing when your audience can figure out what's going to happen in a movie where you want to add a suspenseful twist.

I can't really recommend paying to watch this movie. It takes way to long for anything to happen and that's something I never complain about. If you bring me slow action then bring me a good story. You don't mix a slow and mediocre story with even slower action/suspense. It just makes your viewers loose interest in the film. I know I certainly did.

Another thing about this movie is that it tries to be deep. I didn't find anything deep or meaningful in this film. There was nothing mind blowing or interesting about any points they tried to make if any. I've seen better stories with deeper messages on a Bazooka wrapper.

I also hope that if you do watch this film that your the type that doesn't matter if there is no ending. This film moves so slowly that you expect an ending well worth the time you wasted but it never happens. You think you get some reward for sitting all the way through but there isn't one. Absolutely no pot of gold at the end of this rainbow...more like a bill. The ending message where they talk into the credits trying to leave you with a lasting thought was just rambling that didn't make any sense. It just certified this movie as a complete waste of time.

The only good things to note about it is that the red head was pleasing on the eye and the only reason I didn't take this out the dvd player.

Bottom Line: Extremely slow story pace,Predictable story,and pretentiousness = not worth watching if your paying for it.

1 Star for a boring film.
1626835
Opening special effects are pretty good, but it's downhill from there. Movie just plods along with nothing really happening. Fight scenes are terribly over staged.
4838437
Not even sure what to say. From the weak plot, lack of action, and predictability to the lack of engaging characters and boring story. Overall, thought the film was beyond weak. And the fight scene where Harrison Ford is about to die? Come on, the screen writer / director really need to redo that scene but then again, maybe that was their attempt to insert some "unpredictability," lol.
1541778
It was so boring we turned it off after 45 minutes.
I could put it down for worst movie I've seen this year but I didn't even finish watching it. No redeeming values, nothing worth remembering.
670903
My roommate and I unfortunately wasted an hour and twenty minutes of our lives on this movie, perhaps the most frustrating complilation of bad acting and no plot that I have ever seen.  We stayed awake until the wee hours of the night watching this movie, hoping for the shocking turn of events that would make the whole attempt worthwhile. That time never came.  This movie was like the fight that you have with your boyfriend that takes hours and hours and nothing ever gets accomplished. For this reason, why would you ever watch, rent voluntarily or much to my horror even considering buying this god awful film? I feel it safe to say that I almost went bald viewing this film because I was constantly pulling at my hair, hoping for the torture to end. I only write this review to save others from the gut wreching pain. Mind you, I only gave this film one star because Amazon did not allow me to give it negative 10.
1694369
As a whole, 30 minutes of that movie was great. But the rest were not. What do I do with the rest of my time? For a half hour I was like igght but then I thought what am I doing ? I'm not mad I just feel bamboozled.
3314233
DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME!!!  I spent a total of 20 minutes watching parts of this "movie".........20 minutes I'll never get back!  Horrible.  Ridiculous.  Pitiful.
1414374
I love a good action flick as much as the next guy and was looking forward to watching this movie, but I also like a movie with some realism. Realism is exactly what this movie didn't have. Where do I start?? People being killed with carrots, more unbeleivable stunts than I can count, hundreds upon hundreds of rounds being shot at one man and he doesn't get hit once...even while delivering a baby in an open warehouse??? And let's not forget him making a mechanical baby! I was very dissappointed in this movie. I was all psyched up for this movie then found myself fast forwarding through it after the first 15 minutes!
2952458
It felt like they tried to drop the F bomb to break some record.  With that aside, it started out not too bad with the training/competition but once that was over it felt like they just forgot to finish writing the movie and just winged it.  Two hours I will never get back.
1752265
Couldn't even finish the movie I was so bored... Started off okay then took a very long slow turn of uneventfulness. I haven't turned a movie off at the half way mark in a long time. Wished they would have filmed it in a more exciting way. Your literally looking at people stand in the kitchen for 10 minutes then stand in the living room for 10 minutes. Snooze fest.
165435
The movie is almost 1 + - hours long. It is all so boring you will feel it right away from the very beginning. Half of the movie is based on nudity and mixed with sex scenes. But was even this fun to watch? No, like the whole movie it was plain boring. I advice to skip it or watch without high expectations.
4894162
I'm sorry, I just didn't get it. I know people like this movie, but I don't like it at all. It's by far the slowest movie I've ever seen. It was beautifully shot,  and a slightly interesting plot, even a tad eerie, but just [was bad] right up until the end when absolutely nothing happened. Nothing happened the entire movie! She gets sick from everyday chemicals that are everywhere and seeks refuge from all this pollution in a New Mexico retreat run by a swindler/preist guru type. That's it. Call me spoiled expecting an ending too. Village Voice called it the "greatest movie of the decade" and the New York Times said it was "unnerving".  It's not "darkly comic" either. All lies. The movie's one redeeming factor is that it is in fact, original.
130362
The whole movie can be summarized in 10 minutes. The characters barely speak, and it made me fall asleep in the middle of the movie. No storyline either.