Such a wasted opportunity

Rating: 7/10 (19 June 2019)

The source material was a brooding, excellent movie about faith, humanity, sovereignty, etc. and Scorsese turned it into an interrelationship drama about priests, a binary on Christianity and Japan, and never once even manages two or more shots displaying the scale of imperial Japan elites and the peasantry, for example, Castle shot in relation to the smaller houses over a distance.
It's really a disappointment; not a bad movie, but a movie with the potential to be talked about for decades on end. Here's to hoping another director gives it a try in the future.