Spoiler:  Don't read the final paragraph if you care about not knowing certain aspects about the plot, but save your money and wait for DVD release is my bottom line...  It's worth seeing there from my perspective, just 'cause it's Peter Jackson and for Tucci's villian, who was almost as good as Phillip Seymour Hoffman in MI III, IMHO).  Generally, it was more trite and less believicable than Jackson's other fantasies and neither worth the theatre trip nor the admission price, in my view, and I had been looking forward to a Jackson film on (well, anything at all, but) something he's not tackled before.

The depiction of all but the here and now was way too new-agey for me and cheap schmaltz / sentimentality was all I got here (possibly unsurprizing, though I liked how the 'dark side' was portrayed in "Ghost".)  The script seemed mediocre and the acting so-so overall - though better than I could do, of course - but nothing brought me into the film in any emotional way (I love it when I am pulled in to a movie). Oh... and as a potential buyer of a RED camera ('body' only), I was pleased to see yet another flick shot with this system.

Spoiler (final warning):  The demise of the villain seemed especially cheesey, with an icicle and an unfenced parking lot / cliff that's completely unreal for any First World country at least.  I'm surprised that something more credible wasn't chosen for this - it seems to me that something better would have been easy to write, even if it's like this in the book (dunno about the book, but I wouldn't get it now anyway).  And the baseball bat / running scene with Wahberg and Weisz was another low point.  Again... overall, I'd say DVD/home theatre or possibly avoid completely and spend ~3 hours doing something else.