Dire, dire, dissappointment!

Rating: 2/10 (26 February 2004)

I went into this film with high expectations, i consider myself reasonably good at seeing deeply into a lot of films, so despite my young age I figured I'd give this 3-hour russian based romance a run through due to its highly classed place in film history. Why, oh why didn't i do something more fun like burn myself?
The film seemed to go backward and forward, not really going anywhere, dragged along with a pace so slow if it had gone any slower it would have been rewinding on my DVD. When it did progress, it was randomly done so and I just got the constant impression of it being 'knocked togehter' when being written rather than thought through. The acting was passable, if not a little wooden, but there seemed no chemistry between the characters. what made it harder for me is the film tried to evoke pity for the hard-done by man whom was cheating on his wife. And I'm just one of those people who finds it difficult to sympathise with someone who cheats on his family, which probably didn;t help the situation. Even so, I simply cannot see how this sheer boredom of a movie ever got so highly acclaimed, save yourself 3 hours of your life and do the ironing or something. The only reason I needed Dr Zhivago was to perform resucitation on me after i passed out with boredom.