Film is uninspired, unoriginal and uninteresting

Sometimes, you just know. Maybe you’re watching a trailer or reading a preview; you’re learning about an upcoming movie for the first time. Just like that, an epiphany about this movie strikes.

It is going to be terrible.

More often than not, that visceral first instinct is usually right when it comes to cinematic stinkers. And if you’re like me, you got that feeling instantly upon your first view of the trailer for “The Raven,” starring John Cusack (“Hot Tub Time Machine”) as Edgar Allan Poe in some sort of action-adventure/mystery genre mishmash that at first glance doesn’t seem to know what it wants to be.

Upon viewing the film, I can safely say this - that impression is wholly accurate.