An incredible bore, a pretentious bore

Rating: 4/10 (7 January 2008)

An incredible bore, a pretentious bore, concocted by someone who thinks like this: I know what's beautiful! Let's have a beautiful actress pretend that she's lovelorn while we silhouette her face against moonlit waves under the white cliffs of Dover, and then we'll focus the camera on that and play dreck music for excruciating, tortuous seconds. Let's have beautiful people argue, and have bad luck, and get frustrated in love, and have to go to war, and focus on their supposedly soulful faces for excruciating, tortuous seconds--and meanwhile all those seconds are adding up to a single extended contrived god-awful boredom.
Many people make mistakes when they're young (and when they're old). Many people get frustrated in love. Many people go to war. Thankfully, the real stories are seldom as boring and pretentious--and in the end, as ugly--as this fake one.