Could have been so much better.

Rating: 5/10 (31 January 2017)

The thing that bothered me most was the amount of 'Japanese' that spoke fluent English. Not only is this not convincing it is also impossible if the Catholic priests themselves (Historically speaking) were Portuguese. It is only when one tries to forget about this huge error that one can focus on the 'losing one's religion' plot of the story. The latter is done very well and the only reason why I was able to sit through the entire movie. The other issue that I had with this movie was the length. Normally I never have a problem with long movies, but this one felt already boring after 1.5 hours. And although it becomes more exiting towards the end there still remains a huge gap of overemphasis on suffering (internal and external).