Is everyone mad?

Rating: 3/10 (9 September 2007)

I am truly baffled at the media salivating over this movie. Sure it is well shot (the Dunkirk continuous shot at magic hour was amazing and conveyed a great sense of madness), well acted, and well designed and scored. It had a nice old fashioned, almost Leanesque feel to it. However, for a movie, it is not well written.
Taking forever to get going it requires a bit of patience at the start. However my main gripe with the film is something else. When the one character that goes through the greatest amount of change remains off screen for most of the movie it doesn't leave room for engaging character development. In addition to this, to have the only actions on the part of that character turn out to be false results in us feeling that no change occurred whatsoever. "But that is the point  she never had the courage" I don't buy that and am certainly not impressed by the fact that I was told a lie. I felt cheated and let down as a viewer. I imagine this overrated film will be forgotten about in a year or so. It is certainly no classic.