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pastanley's rating
Although the concept is intriguing, this version is significantly different from the book.
In the book, a major character was a serial killer who was matched with a policewoman. This created interesting conflict and tension.
In the TV series, it's overrun with lesbians. Fine to have one couple who are this way but too many is off putting.
Overall, it was an average entertainment.
In the book, a major character was a serial killer who was matched with a policewoman. This created interesting conflict and tension.
In the TV series, it's overrun with lesbians. Fine to have one couple who are this way but too many is off putting.
Overall, it was an average entertainment.
The style is something you either like or hate. I belong to the latter category.
The camera flits about, hand held for much of the film; scenes are short and sometimes mere single shots. Ben Afflect says little and what he does say is generally a mumble or something insignificant.
There is no narrative, as such. It is a jumble of images. Whoever thought the director is some master film-maker must have rocks in their head. It is a movie which I equate to incomprehensible rubbish, trying hard to be an art piece.
Most annoying are the French sub-titles, made by the female lead. Gibberish would be too kind to describe the outpourings.
I was attracted to the movie because of the actors but they are all disappointing. Film students would make a better film with amateur actors. I had to fast forward to avoid falling asleep.
I will no longer complain about mindless violence in blockbusters.
The camera flits about, hand held for much of the film; scenes are short and sometimes mere single shots. Ben Afflect says little and what he does say is generally a mumble or something insignificant.
There is no narrative, as such. It is a jumble of images. Whoever thought the director is some master film-maker must have rocks in their head. It is a movie which I equate to incomprehensible rubbish, trying hard to be an art piece.
Most annoying are the French sub-titles, made by the female lead. Gibberish would be too kind to describe the outpourings.
I was attracted to the movie because of the actors but they are all disappointing. Film students would make a better film with amateur actors. I had to fast forward to avoid falling asleep.
I will no longer complain about mindless violence in blockbusters.
Unlike other reviewers who raved about the movie and the performances, I can't do the same.
Although the actors played their roles realistically, they were in a film which I found to be slow and utterly boring. I didn't think, after seeing Michelle Williams in "A Week with Marilyn" that she could appear so ordinary and unattractive, both physically and emotionally.
Did I want to see marriage the way it is for real? I could have stayed home for that. Nothing was new in this. Just do a reality spot on numerous marriages and you'd come away with the same depressing sentiment.
Flashing back and forth works at times but here it all blended in to produce a mish-mash of scenes, some of which were incomprehensible.
A very forgettable movie and certainly not one to be revisited.
Although the actors played their roles realistically, they were in a film which I found to be slow and utterly boring. I didn't think, after seeing Michelle Williams in "A Week with Marilyn" that she could appear so ordinary and unattractive, both physically and emotionally.
Did I want to see marriage the way it is for real? I could have stayed home for that. Nothing was new in this. Just do a reality spot on numerous marriages and you'd come away with the same depressing sentiment.
Flashing back and forth works at times but here it all blended in to produce a mish-mash of scenes, some of which were incomprehensible.
A very forgettable movie and certainly not one to be revisited.