| Overall Grade: |
F |
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| Story: |
D |
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| Acting: |
B+ |
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| Direction: |
F |
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| Visuals: |
F |
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How long was this movie? Seven hours.
by Chris (movies profile)
Jun 15, 2008
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76 people found this review helpful
At the mid-way point of this movie (about four hours in), I turned to my companion and asked if the movie would be over by next week since I had several important meetings to attend. You know you're in for false-art when no one speaks for the first chunk of the movie. No one. So that means we have to suffer through filler photography - sweeping vistas of ugly places masquerading as fine art. Oh, yeah, and I am sure we're supposed to call this movie a "film." The movie was an unintentional comedy which, when paired with the forced artistic touches ("This is FILM." the movie screams>), creates a wierd panache of unwitting parody, relentless trying to lure us in, and in all, a big fat false front. It's not a film. It's a bad, bleak movie, with cardboard characters we care nothing about. Deliberately dark, deliberately hopeless. Daniel Day Lewis - I think having fun with the character - speaks in a bizarre cadence that surely must awaken some of the dim-bulb characters to the fact he's an oaf. His child who rarely speaks, and therefore is a prop. The preacher and protaganist. Prop. Other oil men. Props. In short, if it's bleak and unwitting parody you like, see this movie. |
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