A solid flick for Pitt, good movie, but flawed

Rating: 8/10 (27 August 2005)

To enjoy this film, you have to look past some boring parts, Brad Pitt's bad accent and David Thewlis' lackluster performance. However it is visually stunning, scored perfectly, and other than his accent, i felt for Pitt's character. The story is about an austrian mountain climber, who becomes friends with the Dai Lai Lama at the time of China's conquest of Tibet. The screenplay is not great, as the film has its boring parts, and does not flow all that well, the direction is decent, but apart from the great cinematography, thanks to Robert Fraisse (The Notebook, Hotel Rwanda), the direction isn't all that good and I thought the film could have been much more interesting, if only the same kind of effort that went into the cinematography, score and pitt's accent(only kidding), went into the direction and screenplay. It was a decent effort, enjoyable film but can't watch it too many times. 8/10 #209 on my list of all-time favorite films