Mumbling Dialog By All Characters

Rating: 2/10 (29 April 2008)

This was a very frustrating movie to watch; flash backs, flash forwards, darkly lit scenes (difficult to identify characters), and out of sequence shots (supposedly for some sort of artistic effect). The biggest problem by far was the dialog. All characters mumbled their lines. French was spoken in several scenes and the subtitles provided were of such small type I had to continually hit the "stop-frame" button and press my face toward the screen to read it. By the the time I got to the end of the movie I still was unable to sort out what happened. Too bad. Guess I will just have to read the book to figure out the story line. I regret the money spent for this DVD. Surely producers can do a better story telling job than this.