The Emporer has no clothes

Rating: 1/10 (18 March 2015)

Everyone would have you believe that this film is a theatrical masterpiece and if you don't "get it" .. then, well, you are out of touch, unsophisticated, and uncultured. So, we find ourselves reading rave reviews about brilliant insight, brilliant acting, cinematography, etc. and to top it all off, it wins the Oscar for Best Picture. Surely, this is the next Casablanca right? I'm here to tell you that this is just a plain old bad film. It is pretentious, pointless, and boring. I dare anyone to sit through the drum banging gibberish more than once. This is NOT a film folks will be talking about years from now. Quite the contrary, it will have been easily and gratefully forgotten.
If you ask someone "what does this movie mean?" or "what happened at the end" .. you will get a different answer from everyone. This movie presents itself not as entertainment but as a puzzle to be solved where there is no solution. It is an absolute joke on the audience. Those giving it high marks as if they have it all figured out, are just full of themselves.
So, if you are one that can go with the crowd and pretend you see the beautiful masterpiece everyone tells you is there ... enjoy. If you are one who instead tends to see what is actually there... it will be a complete waste of two hours of your life.