Slow and Heavy Handed

Rating: 1/10 (22 July 2017)

Hard to understand why so many people like this film. Slow, lacking in suspense, and extremely heavy handed. Hint for all beginning screenwriters and directors, audiences aren't stupid. If a pilot will run out of fuel late in the movie, you shouldn't have multiple discussions between the pilots discussing fuel supplies-one is plenty, we'd get it. Hint for all cinematographers and directors-when you are showing scenes of squalor, unhappiness or unpleasantness, the photography should not make it look like a travel poster advertising a great vacation spot. (Terrence Malick never got this, nor did the makers of the Revenant.) This movie demonstrates how to take an exciting situation and suck all the life and suspense out of it.