I’m loosing my faith in ratings.

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The former is a movie which I see as completely wasted money. It got a whopping 2/10 rating from me. Very rarely have I been that close to walking out of the cinema during the movie. I only stayed because I thought that this has to get better. It didn’t.

Then there is the latter movie, The Constant Gardener (or El Jardinero Fiel as it is called in Spanish). Now that was a beautiful movie. Not the best story I have ever seen, but very nice filmmaking, acting and soundtracks. I gave it a 9/10.

And what are the IMDb ratings? 7.6/10 for The Constant Gardener, 7.3/10 for Jarhead. I can’t for the live of me figure out the latter rating. Any ideas? Maybe Patritotic US Americans who love every movie about their military? Please help me. Maybe even some Swiss found the movie very nice and can tell me what it was. And it’s interesting that women generally like the movie Jarhead more than men (7.5 vs. 7.3 according to the detailed statistics page).