Okay, I'll make it brief: Boring acting, boring sets, boring special effects, boring motivations, boring characters, boring everything really. This film moves too slow, and leaves too much in the dark. I rarely turn off a movie half-way through, and I've sat through some horrible movies, but this one actively made me turn it off in the first few minutes, play solitaire to compose myself, and finish it. I've seen Smoking Aces 2 and Titanic 2 in their entirety without taking a break. But where those movies succeed and this movie fails is entertainment. A movie should ALWAYS, and I repeat ALWAYS entertain. Regardless of quality. That's the absolute bare minimum, and this film did not achieve it. I'll fully admit that the first scene is pretty well handled, but that for me is another problem with the movie. It makes great promises, and fails to deliver. It leaves you with higher expectations than the movie can account for. I don't necessarily demand that all movies move lightning fast like Crank, but I do expect to at want to finish the movie. No go with this one. And it's not even like the acting and special effects are bad enough to laugh at like an Asylum film. It's just flavorless, dull, and boring. If you're trying to introduce someone to the sixties, this is not the film to do it. It's a full-blown 0/10 for failing even the basics.
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