Don't Believe The Hype

Rating: 1/10 (25 April 2017)

Let me get one thing clear, my expectations were high when I sat down to watch this film. Everything I'd heard, everything I'd read suggested I was in for a cinematic masterpiece.
That is not the case whatsoever. The script is contrived (I'm sorry, but the suggestion of racism within the female leads family was introduced with all the subtly of a brick through a window), the main characters unlikable, the set up pace too slow and the very concept of what was going to happen so ridiculous it betrayed any sense of commentary or message the film was trying to convey.
I'll accept this review isn't terribly insightful but in truth I don't want to waste any more time on it than I already have. That said, I feel compelled to warn people off from the OTT hype, with this seemingly just another "fashionable movie" (like Drive, which was another one that I found massively disappointing).
I'm afraid the writer/director isn't as clever as he thinks and this film is in no way as good as everyone thinks. I should have realised that from the opening scene where the man on-screen basically talks through what he's doing - something so unrealistic and ridiculous it took my breath away.
I've given this a very generous 2 star rating, although that's mostly because some of the cinematography was fairly decent.