Too long, but still a very good film!

Rating: 8/10 (11 August 2015)

It is a good film, no doubt about that, but one thing lacking in the film was pace. It takes too long for things to materialise and get going. The first half is painfully slow and coming to the point in short, the overall length of the film was an issue. This is one aspect that annoys me the most about a lot of films and it is hard to get me look past this point (of too long films), unless it happens to be a film with great pace throughout or highly entertaining from minute to minute. This is a point in general that I think should be amongst priorities for a film-maker. I am sure that like many of those excessively long film, this too must have had scenes which they could have done without. What really is the point of making an otherwise a very good film that is going to have scenes that the viewers can easily afford to talk to each other through it?
Another point to raise would possibly of not showing what happens to the only guy left, Chris. But I would just add that it would have been nice if they had shown, instead of saying it was a must.
But, overlooking all that, it was quite a brilliant film, full of great performances from all the actors.