A Beautiful Behemoth, Divisive and Demanding...Overall Entertaining

Rating: 7/10 (1 February 2016)

This Movie is Enormous. An Epic and Sprawling Scenario Designed to Elicit Awe and Emotion. Brad Pitt is Intentionally Photographed Like a Thing of Beauty While His Wild Nature is Forever Drawing Him to Conflict and Danger. "There are animals here you can't find in books, and I've killed them all."
This Type of Overwrought Dialog Proliferates the Narration and can Bring Forth Unintended Laughter. The Acting too, At Times, can Do the Same if You have not Become Fully Engaged in the Melodrama. Anthony Hopkins, Post Stroke, is so Over-the Top, the Tragic Situations are Almost Lost in the Silliness.
This is a Film that Divides Audiences. It's the Stuff of those Weighty Romance Novels with Bare Chested Hunks with Long Flowing Hair Given Wanting and Adulterous Looks from Females Below. It's a Beautiful Looking Movie with Postcard Images Capturing the Moment in Pristine Wonder.
The Musical Score is Just as Stirring and Just as Overblown. It, along with the Aforementioned Scenery can do Nothing but Captivate. It's the Nature of the Beast and is Used Here for Maximum Effect.
The Long and Winding Road of the Story is Rich with Human Melodrama and Depending on One's Point of View, is Either Ecstasy or Excruciating. Be Prepared for Heartstrings Being Pulled and for the Mind to Boggle. Overall, it is Nothing if Not for Lack of Trying and in the End it Probably Tried Too Hard.