Patience

Rating: 8/10 (5 July 2013)

This movie was great, BUT it requires extreme patience. I went into the movie telling myself that every great review of this movie stated that the first 45 minutes were rough. This is true. Getting a grasp on the pace and style of storytelling is difficult and leaves the viewer wanting to give up. I was watching this movie with my dad and his girlfriend. She ended up walking out at about the 30-minute mark. I was tempted to but stuck in there, and I was heavily rewarded. This movie is very rich, and asks a lot from it's viewers. But if you have the patience to wait it out, you will sit through a magical experience. The acting= mostly superb. The story= excellent (the ability to combine this many stories into one ending that makes sense is virtually impossible, but the movie did it). This movie was once considered an impossible endeavor. I'm still amazed at what was pulled off here. Stories of past, future, and present emerge into one final moment. There is love, there is romance, there is war, there is slavery, there is the future, there is a bit of everything. The reason this movie is an 8 (and not 10) is because of two things: (1) The slow/confusing beginning that makes most people want to give up; (2) one of the multiple stories that is merged together was a tad boring and out of the pace with the rest of the movie. I LOVED every story except for a weird futurist world where Tom Hanks is a crude villager and Halle Berry is a futuristic scientist really didn't work for me- that story just didn't fit the flow and energy of the movie in my opinion. OVERALL= VERY GOOD MOVIE, I recommend to everyone who is willing to show patience and sit through 45 minutes of confusion to get to the grand prize.