Yeah, that's how I looked at it as pure fiction. Even at that it was still boring to me.
I looked it up on Box Office Mojo though and it had a budget of $125 million and did $362,637,473 worldwide (although it only did $101,200,044 in the U.S.) so it was definitely a financial success. It also had a 77% on Rotten Tomatoes which is more than respectable there. That surprised me.