Reading around, this movie has overwhelmingly positive reviews, and I'm honestly stumped; that said, I usually find that 'award bait' movies are dull but beautiful; and this, for me anyway, falls into that category.
Only a 'Horror Movie' insofar as it deals with the Horrors of War (so 'Drama' then), it has some wonderful shots and superb acting, but is more a sequence-of-events than an actual story in any meaningful sense.
It's a WW2 drama about a young Belarusian lad who goes looking for (and finds) an abandoned gun, in order to join the resistance army against the invading Nazis, losing his innocence, and his mind, in the process.
It's also unbelievably slow, meaning that you feel every second of its 2hr10min running-time.
It's not the popular opinion, but: Avoid.
Sorry for the short review but... well; dull movie.
Oh dear. Complete difference of opinion this week it seems, although I can see where you're coming from with how slow it is.
ReplyDeletePerformances won me over though.