Last 30 minutes was all that mattered

Rating: 5/10 (23 November 2011)

The movie is visually beautiful. But was dragging all along until the last 30 minutes. There was an overbearing effort to make the viewer feel very sentimental. The background score was very monotonous and boring. The intent of the story and the idea behind is good and Ben Kingsley and the kids have done a good job. But somehow the viewer doesn't feel the despair the boy feels, Not because of his acting, but because the dialogues were not convincing. The relationship between its characters are not well developed.
Only in the last 30 minutes there were some pace to the story. Watch it if you are a Scorsese fan or nothing else to do.