Having troubles sleeping? Insomnia is a bitch? Try this one.

Rating: Null/10 (23 January 2017)

After some good 40 minutes I had to surrender to the sweet feathery world of dreams. I think something like 4 hours passed before I woke up. Turns out there is still another 40 minutes of this movie left. 1 hour 20 minutes have never been so dreamy.
After quick rewind I gave another try to the remaining 2 hours. I was at the edge of consciousness half the time. Wondering how any narrator can have such a bland, monotonous voice and at the same time getting irritated by how slowly paced and uninteresting the movie was.
The movie suffers from utter nothingness. Everything that happened in it can be summed up in one sentence. "There are Christians in Japan." .... Somehow it took Scorsese 2 hours 40 minutes and 40 millions USD to say this simple line. To me, the viewer - it felt like half a day.
To be fair, I don't think it is completely Scorsese's fault this movie sucks. And I don't even like him or his movies to begin with. Maybe better directing could make this subject more interesting, but still, only notable title from this medium about spreading Christianity is Vikings - or more like the first 2 seasons of it. Silence (2016) surely won't impress many people.