I've read the comments and the ones who got it right are those who observe that this is a good way to spend of couple of hours of your life with your brain in neutral. With minimal expectations and open to its entertainment value, you won't want those two hours back.
I didn't particularly like Hayden Christensen in Star Wars and he wasn't any better here. Fortunately, the rest of the cast took up the slack. OTOH, the effects are generally good and the director exhibits both a good eye and some wit. The plot, although derivative, has a refreshingly original spin to it. Better yet, no effort is made to explain cause of the phenomenon, only its effect on the people who intersect it.
Still, that does leave some gaping plot holes that you could drive a truck through, but that gets back to the point of leaving your brain in neural for the duration. This is not SF, it is fantasy, so you shouldn't necessarily expect the rules of physics (or logic) to apply.
The greatest criticism I could level at this film is that there was no character with whom I felt any particular empathy. Hayden Christensen's protagonist is self-centered and cares for little more than his own minute-to-minute gratification. How can you care about what happens to a character who doesn't care about any one else? I suspect the villains are as two-dimensional as they are because if they weren't, you'd care more about them than the "hero".
As I said, entertaining enough, but devoting more than the minimum required number of brains cells to it is to quickly reach a point of diminishing returns.
I didn't particularly like Hayden Christensen in Star Wars and he wasn't any better here. Fortunately, the rest of the cast took up the slack. OTOH, the effects are generally good and the director exhibits both a good eye and some wit. The plot, although derivative, has a refreshingly original spin to it. Better yet, no effort is made to explain cause of the phenomenon, only its effect on the people who intersect it.
Still, that does leave some gaping plot holes that you could drive a truck through, but that gets back to the point of leaving your brain in neural for the duration. This is not SF, it is fantasy, so you shouldn't necessarily expect the rules of physics (or logic) to apply.
The greatest criticism I could level at this film is that there was no character with whom I felt any particular empathy. Hayden Christensen's protagonist is self-centered and cares for little more than his own minute-to-minute gratification. How can you care about what happens to a character who doesn't care about any one else? I suspect the villains are as two-dimensional as they are because if they weren't, you'd care more about them than the "hero".
As I said, entertaining enough, but devoting more than the minimum required number of brains cells to it is to quickly reach a point of diminishing returns.