An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but, since there was a decent cast involved, I thought I might as well check it out anyway. I have noticed that it turned out to be a huge flop when it was released (it was even nominated for the Razzie of the worst movie of the year) and, well, I can't say I was surprised as the damned thing turned out to be pretty much an unwatchable mess. Seriously, right from the intro explaining how this concept was supposed to work, I thought it already sounded really half-baked. To make things worse, Sophie Cookson's character repeated exactly the same explanation maybe 30 mins later. Concerning the cast, there were a few decent actors involved but, in my opinion, Mark Wahlberg was completely miscast here though. Indeed, even though he can be certainly entertaining, he was never convincing whatsoever playing a man supposedly suffering from schizophrenia. The fact that he looked ridiculous carrying all the time his samurai sword probably didn’t help either and I wish he did stop delivering wise-*ss oneliners every 2 mins. In fact, I think the concept might have had some potential. Indeed, what if we could remember past lives? The metaphysical implications would be huge. And, indeed, how someone would cope with this? Becoming schizophrenic or mentally ill from all this didn't seem so far-fetched but, instead of digging deeper in what it could mean and the impact it might have on an individual, all these ideas were buried very deep under so much nonsense and so many boring and derivative action scenes. Finally, the idea that the bad guy would decide to eradicate all life on Earth just because he couldn't cope anymore was also weird and hardly convincing. And all his henchmen also believed the very same thing? Anyway, to conclude, I think I was actually rather generous with my rating here, the damned thing was really weak and you should probably avoid it.

5/10