Long, long, slow, slow....

Rating: 3/10 (18 February 2009)

Too long, too slow and full of painful, dreadful "faux" philosophy. Agree with most of the negative comments on here so wont repeat them. Hilariously this is ranked as number 125 on the IMDb top 250! Ranks above Annie Hall, Kinds Hearts and Coronets, Kill Bill, The Deer Hunter, Ben Hur, Big Lebowski etc etc I think the rating system might be slightly flawed! The effort that has gone in to making this film is remarkable and plaudits must go to costume design and other areas of technical excellence. But what a waste of some brilliant movie making. This was based on a short story which I would like to read but why o why drag the film out for three hours. I guess it's a shoe in for best film Oscar this week