Boring, awful, (the first hour)

Rating: 1/10 (16 November 2007)

Starts out with possibilities, even though gory: with Denzel Washington and Clarence Williams III. The beginning of the movie was interesting, the cinematography was quite beautiful and interesting, but then they and the beautiful cinematography disappeared. What followed was dull, boring, hard to follow if you wanted to bother, and then after an interminable time we walked out. After all, how long does one wait for a movie to take off, make some sense, or be mildly interesting? The woman next to me was fast asleep,and the person who recommended the movie to us favorably, also likes to naps during movies. Gangs of New York was riveting, love Clarence Williams in Mystery Woman. Denzel is wonderful, but the whole beginning was pretty much without him.