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Rating: 5/10 (13 August 2016)

Let's start with positive things. There is a great cast. Rachel Weisz makes a brilliant performance as a woman falling in love and especially the part when she is blinded is so well played.Sadly she didn't get more screen time. Colin Farrell is nearly every cut on screen and the only one who gets space to develop effectively. He makes his job very good as a man trying to fit in the system and searching love but also as someone who isn't able to find it on this way. Lea Seydoux, Ben Whishaw and Olivia Coleman as well were able to make their less time on screen effective. They all use their limited space of action given by the playbook really great. The biggest surprise for me was Angeliki Papoulia. Only around 20 minutes in the movie, but I don't remember someone being more realistic heartless. Also the work with the camera, especially in the woods, is well done. The colors always seem to be depressive and fixing to the intention of the Lobster. The world is so realistic created that I started feeling uncomfortable while watching it and thinking of what I would do in this world. The fact they didn't use make up also made everything in the presenting very realistic and touching. So what went wrong? Great idea, great cast, great production - but the two hours felt so long. The intention is explained very fast and is repeated and repeated again and again-BORING! The dialogues are most of the time useless and inconsequential. It helped at the beginning to understand the world of being pushed into relationships; to understand the constraint. But after 30 minutes it is clear what they wanted to say so why to continue this? At the end we have a story and idea could easily get around 8 points. We have a crew that could easily get 10 points...but what came out isn't even close being a good movie. The cast saved the Lobster to get an rating as an average movie, but without the movie would be on my list of worst movies 2015- sadly.