A missed opportunity

I remember it quite well when this movie was released. Indeed, even though it wasn’t really a box-office failure, it was seriously destroyed by the critics. With this in mind, I wasn’t really expecting much from the damned thing but I thought I might as well give it a try. Well, first of all, to be honest, I really liked the concept and the whole thing definitely had some potential. Furthermore, I also really liked the fact that the main character was rather selfish and egocentric. Indeed, his behavior was far from being really heroic which was quite refreshing but this idea was not developed at all in the movie. On top of that, the whole story was eventually rather lame and the dialogues were even worse, I’m afraid. As  usual, everybody blamed Hayden Christensen but, in fact, I thought he was not bad at all in this movie. On the other hand, Rachel Bilson was not convincing at all but it was not entirely her fault. The main issue was more the fact that the whole romance between their characters was not interesting at all. Seriously, they could have looked for something more thrilling than that. Instead, you end up with a rather lame love story and this battle with the Paladins which was just really not developed enough and not really interesting either. To conclude, I don’t think it was not as bad as everyone seemed to think, there were actually some great ideas, the end result was just quite average but I still think is worth a look, in spite of its flaws.