This film died way before the white swan did!

Rating: Null/10 (3 March 2017)

Why do one star reviews or at least reviews that give less than five and sometimes even four stars get buried? Even more so when it is a one-star review! that is what this review is so it will get buried! Natalie Portman is boring thanks to her character being boring as are the rest of the cast and as she is the best of a bad bunch (she must be, she won an Academy Award for the role after all which doesn't mean much as awards are only glorified adverts)! It's an artsy fartsy film that borrows (or should that be steels) from other films I have seen before. Many clichés are strewn throughout the film and the cinematography and directing doing nothing to improve the overall lack of enjoyment in what turns out to be a very confusing film as Nina succumbs more and more to her hallucinations. Nina being a meek, insipid, mild character would never have been given the starring role in a real ballet company and as for her searching for her bad side so that she could get and therefore play the bad swan well the way they went about it was, quite frankly, absolutely ridiculous! The hallucinations become really ridiculous to the point where you don't know if she is still hallucinating at the end or not! And why is she hallucinating anyway? She is not on some type of hallucinogenic drug so why is she hallucinating? If you are exploring your dark side and trying to find it you wouldn't hallucinate while doing! Just yet another stupid thing in the film! so Now some films such as Existenze can end with lots of unanswered questions, personally, I don't think this is one of those films! If you want to waste 108 minutes of your life watch grass grow or paint dry for that long as even that would be more enjoyable than this rubbish!