Too much and not enough.

Rating: 5/10 (6 March 2013)

For the last 2 years i was saying to myself "you should see Incendies that everybody is talking about, it must be awesome" and i finally did...
The goods: great actors, great cinematography, some strong dramatic scenes, sometimes very realistic.
The bads: Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong, way to long, especially the beginning of the film. I didn't care about the characters and i've found myself fighting against boredom for the most part. Nothing really happens until the 48th minute, THE 48TH MINUTE!! I didn't bought the plot in the first place; a twin's odyssey in the middle-east to meet an unknown brother and understand the mystery behind the mental illness of their dead mother; and that's too bad because i wanted to like this movie very hard, but i didn't. The ending is twisted at a point it became ridicule and laughable, i didn't bought that either...
Yeah, i know, truth is stranger than fiction, but sometimes fiction pushed too hard is overkill.
In my opinion the music didn't fit for a middle-east movie, for the most part at least. I mean, why not include some Twisted Sisters, Bon Jovi and Justin Beiber in the soundtrack once you are there? A bit of "phrygian dominant" would have helped.
I didn't liked the structure either, i think they tried to make it too "artistical" or something, and it didn't helped the story.
If you want your vacation to last longer, that 2 hours and 10 minutes felt like 5 hours, just saying...
Not a bad movie, but not that great either. A lot of bones but a lack of meat. Maybe i had too much expectations but in one word : deception.