The only redeeming quality is good photography

Rating: 1/10 (10 March 2005)

There are certain things that are inexcusable in a movie. This film has a sound track that is always set at an impossibly fast tempo, no matter what is happening. There is absolutely no character development. It is repetitive. You will see a couple of sailors climb up a ladder on the ship, and then see that same shot repeated four or five times. This occurs when the sailboats are going to meet the battleship, and when the battleship is entering the fleet. Throughout the whole film there are sections where nothing is happening, (like when the sailboats meet the battleship), and you will be listening to demented carnival music when the camera will cut to an old lady, or a seagull. This film is total crap. I actually felt physical pain sitting through this movie. This is the reason why people won't watch art films. But while art films are beautiful and make you think, this is propagandist drival, filled with symbolism that it would take fifteen autistic children to understand. I felt like gouging out my eyeballs, dropping to my knees, and demanding explanation from a God that would let a film like this be made.