Atonement Sucks!

Be forewarned. I went in expecting this year's version of The Queen...a boring premise executed with grace. But no...it starts of quite interesting with different points of view and going back and forth in time. But then the movie completely falls apart and can best be described as irritating. Every time I think studios and filmmakers ought to take more storytelling risks, I see a movie like this and long for good old fashioned narratives.

UPDATE: NY Times nails it.

PS - How in the world did this film get nominated for an Oscar? I must be missing something because I'd never expect the O's to nominate something like this...and it seems to be on a lot of top ten lists. Please, readership, help me out of this one...