A bad movie

After hearing here and there some rather good things about this flick, I was really curious about it. Furthermore, a movie directed by Richard Donner and starring Bill Murray should be pretty decent. Eventually, to my surprise, I thought the whole thing was actually pretty bad. I know, it is considered a cult classic, for many people, it is a real Christmas classic and they really cherish it but I definitely cannot see what so good about it (I'm not the only one by the way, Roger Ebert also thought it was utter rubbish). In my opinion, Bill Murray was completely obnoxious and this was once again another unnecessary new version of an old and overused tale. I don’t know, I never really cared about ‘A Christmas Carol’ but this alternative version was by far the worst one I have seen so far. Above all, the whole thing was not funny whatsoever and even though it supposed to be moralistic like the original tale, it failed rather miserably, in my opinion, showing some bad jokes and some truly unpleasant characters. To conclude, I thought it was a real failure, a pretty bad dark comedy and you should definitely avoid it, or maybe I missed the point and you should check it out to make up your mind on your own.

4/10