I watched the nostalgia critic review of it, and honestly, it looked so boring and convoluted that I couldn't even make sense of it.

Apparently Tom Cruise was at least partly to blame - the little egomaniac wanted his character to have a bigger role and started seizing more and more creative control over the project, which didn't do anyone any favours.

And universal's next monster movie, The Invisible Man, did much better.

Oh yeah, Invisible Man was bloody brilliant. If extremely harrowing to watch.

And it better have enough people interested in it. I browsed the r/fractalverse subreddit, and many people are saying the conclusion felt too rushed.

It also felt completely out of nowhere, but you've heard me go on about that before.

I wouldn't mind if he wasn't so ignorant of the fact that him being noticed in the first place was due to luck and his parents having enough money to promote the thing, and second, if he didn't have so many terrible depictions of physical and mental disabilities in his books.

The dude needs to get out of his comfort zone and learn something about real life. He comes across as painfully sheltered, and not in an endearing way.