Pretentiousness ruining a potentially better movie

Rating: 6/10 (20 March 2019)

I dont understand the fish eye cams, other than to show that "Im so unique and deep"? Seriously, other than that I just can't imagine a single bit of reason for it. Simply because It's not like fish eye cam is a new thing and no one ever tried to do something with it, imagine lowering the resolution of the film randomly making it blurry sometimes in between key scenes for no reasons, yeah, such new avant-garde, such creativeness, right? why no one does it? because it looks freaking bad and serves nothing other than repulsiveness to some audiences.
The plot is suspenseful most of time keeping the movie engaging, but on a story level it's average at best if not simply bad. Aside from being overly simplistic, there are hardly ever any character or character development, I understand it's a luxury to ask for realism even though with its almost absurd level budget or attention to the historic clothes and environment settings one would naturally expect so, then again one can only hope they can at least allocate 1% of that to the story to make it more reasonable or believable, to be at least worthy of all the dazzling fancy environment sets.
The movie is successful in depicting the most basic settings as to where the main characters are to the queen on relationship levels but that's about it, theres no character consistency after that, the queen is literally a cheap plotdevice with no personality of her own while the others had IQ and sympathy level that are conveniently changing every time the plot demands. One time a woman can threaten and nearly kill the protagonist directly with the slightest offense, next scene on the most serious intrusion of the highest seriousness, protagonist is merely "dismissed", giving her chance to fight back in the following plots.
Probbly coming from a background of Asia used to all kinds of palace drama and movies of all kinds of princes and concubines scheming and fighting to the death, tons of the events in the story just feels stupid and naive, with actions of the characters uncharacteristic and fake. Like the single most powerful person in the country even controlling the Queen should have easily executed a mere maid along with the maid's whole family or the entire crew when she dared to use poison in cups served to queen, and even nearly killing her. A person as smart as her controlling every fair in the palace would not give the maid chance to plead to queen with self inflicted fake wounds when she ordered her to leave, no, she'd go directly to the guillotine, as if not already ridiculous enough, later when the maid is with the queen, an audience is suddenly required denying the woman more chance with the queen? The writer or director needs to at least learn and understand how an audience with the King or Queen works, it's not the door lock of a 13 year old girl throwing tantrum, If the Queen had the power to banish the woman out of the country, how dare , how dumb and why would the smartest powerful woman threaten the Queen with life and death matter?? thats simply not her character, and it serves literally nothing, this is not modern time world where a public figure can not be killed easily,, (in the end she's indeed banished from the country losing all her power just because of one command from the Queen), etc etc, there are so many convenient development that are dumb on many levels to anyone used to historical dramas inside a feudal palace.
Another widely hated part is the background music which didn't bother me, on the contrary I found them just right for the atmosphere the movie is trying to create (could be that im watching it at 1.5-2x the speed rather than being forced to hear it all the way through in a closed theatre with heightened decibels though).
Anyway, an average movie with an overly simplified and most of the time dumb story that is simply sub par and in sharp contrast to the grandiose visuals and environment sets.

People say when the wave ebbs, the one that is naked is then exposed. IMO This movie is precisely the case showing exactly how much worth this director is at when he is no longer shrouded in this guise of ridiculousness of "omg so deep""so many meanings",
like an artist known for drawing abstract random mix of colors that hardly anyone appreciates, but are always touted by a certain group of people as "Deep! masterpiece!", when this artist is asked to simply draw a picture of something in real world for the beauty of it simply rather than drawing "deep things", alas, the result just turns out to be this painfully average and at most place sub par drawing, worthy literally no more than a rating of average, 5/10. Plus 1 point for the high budget fancy set pieces that are a joy to the eye.