Dialogue Writing

Rating: 4/10 (2 May 2015)

This will be a very short review, focused on one single aspect of the movie... the dialogue writing. The dialogue writing in this movie is among the worst of the thousands of movies I've watched. Off the top of my head, I cannot recall any movie that has dialogue as bad as this. I have never read the book, so I have no idea if this is a product of staying true to the source material, I am only judging it in the context of the movie. Characters speak in terribly obvious and unnatural exposition, with long pauses after sentences, so the audience can presumably absorb the subtext. You could shut the picture off altogether, as virtually everything happening is explained in mundane detail by the characters. The dialogue is written at an English level and pacing that would likely be deemed too slow for a children's movie. The movie wasn't for me, so I'm not a good judge of it overall, but as a human being who reads and watches films, I can say the dialogue writing was insulting to my intelligence. Advice... keep your expectations even lower than they may already be.