After a number of attempts I finally gave up on this film

Rating: 2/10 (21 October 2009)

I thought this film had been banned in Britain after its release but just today I found out that it hadn't been banned at all. Anyway I didn't watch this film until about 8 years ago and unfortunately I fell asleep and missed the majority of the film. I have since tried on a number of occasions to watch it all and have only managed to watch it in its entirety twice. I have come to the conclusion that this film is just not for me. I always try to find something positive in any film I watch but I could not find anything in this film to admire. The whole experience was in the absence of a more appropriate word, boring. I have no doubt that the cast and crew were well intentioned and believed they had done a reasonable job at the time but in my opinion the film is 136 minutes of self indulgent rubbish and it appears today to be very dated. I might have reacted differently if I had watched it at the time of its release but somehow I doubt it. I know I am in the minority who just don't like this film but that has never bothered me. There are a handful of films which I have seen which fall into my own category of 'a waste of time and money' and this is one of them. I cannot recommend anyone watch this film but I suggest they do, so you can make up your own mind up about it but please don't get tangled up with the enormous amount of positive or negative hype which has always surrounded this film.