A Higher Level Of Mediocrity By Hollywood Standards, Boardwalk Empire On LSD.

Rating: 6/10 (28 August 2013)

I Cannot Compare To The Novel, Having Never Read It, So I Don't Know Much About How Well Adapted This Film Is. It Is A Nice Story, Reminiscent Of The Rum Diaries, In Its Basic Structure, It Is Beautifully Colorful, Almost Psychedelic, And Enjoyably Unrealistic And Excessive. Yes, The Best Way I Can Describe Is: The Rhum Diaries Concept And Storyline. Boardwalk Empire Style And Time Period. The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassius Visuals. It Is I Feel As Though It Passed By A Bit Quickly, Leaving One Slightly Unsatisfied With How Quickly The Story Is Told. Its Greatest Advantage, To Me, Is The Time Period, The 20s Are So Glamorously Depicted You Wish You Could Be There, Enjoying Calloway Singing His Head Off, The Effects Make You Wish You Lived Back When Deep Blue Skies Still Existed, And Chemtrails Had Not Left The Skies Polluted And Grey, When Clouds Were Still Fluffy Bunny Shaped Things. The Soundtrack Is A Bit Excessive. I Feel The Director Made An Interesting Decision In Trying To Modernize The Soundtrack Taking A Radical Turn From Other Recent TV And Cinema In The Trend Of Stylish, Nostalgic Period Pieces, Using Modern Music Rather Than The Treasures Of The time, But He Went A Bit Overboard, I Think He Was Trying To hard To Appeal To Young Audiences. The Acting Is Slightly Dull At Times, Leonardo Di Caprio Delivering Once More A Respectable Performance, Being A More Theatrical Hollywood Actor, The Rest, Was Quite Mediocre. All in All, Watch It To Pass The Time, If You Like Simple Emotional Epic Hollywood Type Stuff, Watch It. If You're Looking For Something That Will Change your Life, Look Elsewhere. If You're A Person That Likes Period Pieces Or Colorful Explosive films, Like The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus, Watch It.