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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fast Learner" data-source="post: 2438261" data-attributes="member: 649">Man, it was one of the absolute worst films I've seen. The huge number of giant plot holes were utterly ridiculous. The fact that they can't even decide what year the movie takes place in (referenced early on as 2019, then later as 2050-something).Scarlett Johansson, who I love, could have been replaced by CGI in the film without making a difference. The action scenes were incredibly implausible and went ON and ON and ON and ON. I mean, [spoiler]ok, so they pushed some train wheels off the back of a truck and wrecked some SUVs,[/spoiler] just like in Bad Boys II, more or less, bu then they did it again... and then they did it again. That part of the sequence took like 6 minutes. Yawn, wake me when you do something different, even something interesting.And the product placement. Oh. My. God. I couldn't believe how awful it was. Gotta love that "MSN Search" pseudo phone booth bullcrud. And that shot where they set a bottle of AquaFina down in the middle of a tray between two drinks, filling the entire screen, never to be seen again. Until Tom drinks another bottle of it later. Really, seriously, I've never seen such blatant and horrible product placement. And that after being subjected to 10 minutes of tv commercials before the trailers. *Blurgh*. Sorry, couldn't hold it in. Only in Josie and the Pussycats have I seen such blatant placement, and in the latter film, it was a parody, designed to point out how incredibly awful it is (they didn't get paid a penny for any placement in JatP)..And the technology, oy vey! Flying scooters (with Star Wars vibrating thrum sound effects, no less) vs. cars that look like next year's models (and probably are, for additional product placement). Incredibly high-tech [spoiler]full-formed human cloning[/spoiler] and the most pathetic of boiler rooms.And the repeated use of incredibly ham-handed deus ex machinas. I mean, at one point the protagonists are about to [spoiler]fall to their deaths,[/spoiler] for sure, no doubt about it, until the director and writer just go, "Nope, that's not how that ends, they're fine, poof." 7th graders write better storylines than that.Man, I was expecting a good film. Instead I got crap. So disappointing.Oh, and here's a question for those who have seen it: [spoiler]How did the clone played by Ewan dream about that boat and know its name[/spoiler]? HUGE plot hole.Blech. It only got a couple of stars more than the zero it otherwise deserved due to me liking most of the actors.Wow did I ever dislike this movie. ("Tell us how you really feel.") Don't see it. Don't rent it. Don't support further crappy sci-fi.</blockquote>

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