Vastly Overrated!!!

Rating: 5/10 (18 February 2013)

I have to say I was severely disappointed in watching "The Last Emperor" last night. Having never seen it before, but always being aware that it was a well-reviewed and critically acclaimed film led me to believe like most films that fit into his category, it too would be enjoyable even though it took me years to get around to viewing it.
All I can say it that I really do NOT understand the High rating or how this film won 9 Academy Awards!! Whilst I can see that the subject matter was quite interesting and had Great potential to be a very very interesting film and highly entertaining, I found it to be slow paced,lacking in detail of the many occurrences/conflict points in the film, and general overall lack of making you care about the characters in the film.
I can see that the film should have been great, and certainly had the potential to be great based on an extremely interesting subject matter, but I just felt like the lack of true emotional connection to the characters or their situations (due to poor explanation on the film's part in my opinion) make it impossible to enjoy this film the way I should have or would have liked to.
I can see on paper that the sheer scope of this film warrants some attention and praise, but I thought the execution in practice was very very poor and the film uninteresting.
I really do not understand the high praise this film receives (other than it being the "epic" type of film Hollywood like to praise from time to time), as I thought it was poorly acted (other than the younger children), poorly conceived, and lacked any real emotion from what should have been a powerful powerful film.
Just my take on what I was hoping would be the epic film I had heard so much about.