Really didn't like it

Rating: 5/10 (4 August 2006)

I loved thin red line, I thought it was wonderful and poetic, but what the heck was this?? I really didn't get it, and I must say I really wanted to like it. I don't mind slow movies, Thin Red Line was slow, but this was ridiculous. The problem was that it was repetitively slow. There were at least 20 repetitions of a scene that the director said something to the effect of "Colin, you love her, but you're pained by it, you realize your culture is evil and you're going to bring her ruin, so look in love and pained at the the same time", he did a good job the first time, but it got really boring after the 10th. Then let's have her look innocent and childlike, OK, that was poignant the first time, good contrast between their free culture and the dirty Western one, but after the 10th time, that got boring... let's see what else... oh yes, her looking sad and forlorn... yes let's do that 10 times... come on man... this coulda been a 30 minute movie, and it would have been great... as it was... good scenery, good but predictable message, and VERY repetitive, slow, and pointless in all other ways.
And that ENDING??? OK, I won't give that away. Sorry, I hated this film.