Historical Religious Story that really takes its time

Rating: 4/10 (10 September 2017)

This is a film from Martin Scorsese but not of the usual ilk. This is about two Portuguese Priests who volunteer to go to Japan in the 17th Century to find their missing mentor played by Liam Neeson. Once there they face religious persecution and extreme tests of faith and this is their story.
Now that is it and this goes on for 161 minutes and I know I will be called a philistine etc for saying this but it is incredibly dull. I was brought up a Catholic and find all kinds of Missionary activity to be a form or cultural imperialism so did not care a jot what happened to these interlopers. The testing of faith bit was interesting but this is a film that you could not pay me enough to endure again. My rating is for artistic merit and nothing to do with subjective enjoyment.