By Chris Alexis

Before I attended the screening for Lions for Lambs, I had already heard it had bad buzz. But still, I wanted to see it and give it a fair chance. After all, Robert Redford directed it, and it’s got Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise in it. That's truly an all-star cast.

But, acting aside, the movie let me down.

It was so boring.

Most of the movie is talking heads. People in a room discussing the war and their own philosophies on the movie, and their own lives. Just people talking. And talking. And talking.

The only real action is about a third of the film follows two soldiers on a mission gone wrong. They end up stranded, trying to survive.

But the rest of the movie is back to two people sitting across from each other and talking. Whether its a journalist (Streep) interviewing a senator (Cruise) or a professor (Redford) talking to one of his students, the whole movie is just a bunch of conversation.

The performances weren’t bad – again, these are high-caliber actors, but even great acting can’t rescue a boring script and a boring film.

The only saving grace was it was about 90 minutes long. Thankfully, it was short. It could have been so much longer. It felt like so much longer.

Seriously people, don’t bother with this one.

Unless you’re having trouble sleeping.