What a waste: Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Robbie Coltrane, Maximilian Schell, Ricky Jay--excellent actors all, but not in writer/director Rian Johnson's THE BROTHERS BLOOM. (Hint: Tom Cruise had a three-hour meeting with Johnson that improved the script.)  

It probably sounded like a good idea to fool around with the Odysseus story, retold by James Joyce as Ulysses (characters of Penelope, Stephen, and Bloom--get it?  Never mind.  Not important unless you were an English major).  But this movie is a true mess.  Nothing makes much sense;  the movie doesn't even follow its own logic.  And logic should be in quotes: here, "logic."  Gratuitous explosions every two seconds, the kind of cliff-hanging teasing that would embarrass even 24...Just don't bother.

If you want a good retelling of the Odysseus story, check out a DVD of the Coen brothers' O Brother Where Art Thou?  Fabulous.