Couldn't Finish It

Rating: 4/10 (6 May 2014)

I started to watch this movie with high hopes. Perhaps my expectations were unrealistic, but I expected this movie to have a story that was reasonably well-scripted with character development and complex plot elements. Call me dense, but I found none of those in this film.
To begin with, the trope of a dying woman from the Old South (former Confederate States to those of you from outside the US) telling a story of her life was done better with True Grit and The Oldest Confederate Widow Tells All.
The adaptation of Fitzgerald's work is a travesty. The early part moves slowly, and shuffles along, pardon what might some might find as a slur on the Southern stereotypes offered for popular consumption. After about an hour and a half, I decided it was not worth it.
I tried to watch the rest of the movie the following night, but lost whatever plot there might have been. Adapting a short story into a movie nearly three hours long does not make sense.
I am looking forward to a decent adaptation of Times Arrow by Martin Amis.