poor performance and lack of originality

Rating: 3/10 (26 January 2014)

If you haven't seen The Soloist and Django Unchained then you might enjoy this film. The title could be as easy as ''1 year a slave'' . When I was watching the film , the 12 years were not there no matter how boring were the repetitive scenes. The Plot is weak. Performance of the main character lacks in character development, equal from start till end. Instead of picking a violin not so far from a cello like in The Soloist, the character could have any other instrument, maybe jazz instruments to be more plausible and really show the afro-American important contribution to music and culture. That would add more life to the character and film. Lots of unnecessary scenes. Predictable ending. Would not see this film again.