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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 6237236" data-attributes="member: 32740">If the movie had been well-done... entertaining... had some redeeming value (and even the CGI was intrusive at many points) then sins of disrespect of the original story would have been largely overlooked.  Not ENTIRELY overlooked, but success has many fathers and failure is an orphan.  The movie is NOT particularly well done.  The plot is disjointed.  The story is meandering, badly paced and confused.  The characters are two-dimensional, unlikeable, and formulaic.  The battles are uninteresting and badly choreographed.  EVERYBODY in the movie sounds as if English is a second language (which, oddly enough, is a downside for an English-language film) but even without that the acting is universally subpar.The only real crime here is that they took an interesting story with great potential and made a SURPRISINGLY bad movie of it.  All else is irrelevant by comparison.On the merely adequate side the costumes were okay I suppose; production design was competently done; and the score was not intrusive.  On a 5-star scale I give it a 2.</blockquote>