Imagery is artwork, but a movie needs more to be complete

Rating: 4/10 (4 February 2012)

While the scenery and image quality was outstanding, I have to say this is one of my least favorite movies.
The progress of plot development was unnecessarily slow, and if you are watching anything other than Ryan Gosling's eyes, it is all too easy to see reality warped to force a story plot that could have been well developed in the time given.
Unfortunately, instead of properly developing the movie, the director chose slow dollies, extreme close-ups of the actors (Gosling mainly) eyes, and an awkward lack of dialog for the main character -- even at times when he was being asked direct questions.