Captions Please

Rating: 9/10 (3 December 2012)

I read several reviews and I must say I'm surprised that none of them mentioned the great difficulty in making out the dialog in this 3 hour movie. At first I thought it was just me, but my son and his wife admitted to having had an equally frustrating time of it. I think I caught maybe one half of the words spoken throughout the film; the rest might as well have been Latin or Vulcanese. Although I'm glad that we were able to see this extraordinary epic film on the big screen, we are going to have to watch this again - on video - with the subtitle feature on! Only then will we know what the characters were saying to one another.
Regarding other aspects of the movie, I was very pleased. The cinematography was outstanding, the cast was brilliant, and the story was rich in meaning. I love that they presented the characters as having had lifetimes as persons of differing races and gender, with varying sexual preferences, and even mixing up the yin-yang with a soul playing the good guy in one lifetime and the baddie in another... just like in real life!
I think this is one of those films that you need to watch over and over again in order to glean the full value from its many layers.