Missed opportunity to make a great film.

Rating: 4/10 (18 January 2019)

What a shame the opportunity was missed to make a great film. All the ingredients were there with the rivalry, the idiosyncrasies (including ducks and rabbits) and great actors, yet it somehow managed not to be entertaining. Of course the score did not help. It sounded as though someone was trying to learn to play the violin. The pace was too slow and the right atmosphere was not created in order for the audience to respond to the witticisms and visual comedy. Here was the opportunity to play one favourite off against the other. At one time one of them could have been winning and the situation could have changed quickly to put the other in front, but it did not work. What should have been funny lacked timing and the pathos was lost by the unsympathetic characters. Did we have to suffer the explicit sexual scenes? Then there was the ending, if it could be called that. Left high and dry as the main characters pondered their past and future, but in a situation that was a big turn off. A bit like the whole film.