Review of The Libertine

I have a lot to say about this movie and none of it is positive. Let me be frank, I love movies, all movies, good, bad, stupid, and most importantly I can generally tell the difference between them. This is a bad movie. No, this is a terrible movie. A movie that indulges in itself so much that it suffers the same fate as its "protagonist": it dies a disgusting death polluted with blemishes that no one cares about (except for his dependent wife), forget remembers. I am sure many people will say, "I did not get this movie". I assure you I got the movie. Debauchery blah blah blah…deceit blah blah blah…ugliness inside, ugliness outside…and, my personal favorite, the "plot twist" in which the main character receives his ultimate punishment at the hands of the only person he ever loved, "Sigh", or in my case, "Why?". It's not that I did not like the main character, as the opening oh-so-pretentiously tells me I will not, my main problem is that I did not even care about the main character. This is upsetting because if a movie should do anything it should, at the very least, leave you with a smidgen of concern about, at the minimum, one character in it. I left the same way I came in…bored. Although, to be honest, I was mad that I had wasted 120 minutes of my life. I am not going to tell you not to see this movie, although it might be the best advice I have ever given. Instead, I will concede my point and say that maybe it's just one of those movies that some people love and others revile; however, I would not take the chance.