Asks too much of its audience and doesn't entertain.

Rating: 4/10 (19 August 2006)

Lovers of photography and beautiful images will find much to like in this film as the photography is fantastic. On a big screen it is simply magnificent. But great images on their own do not make a great movie. This film attempts to be too many things at once and fails. The "arty" editing really turned me off. There was very little dialogue at the start of the film and I wasn't even sure what was happening. The story and plot (plot? was there a plot?) just jerked along from one scene to the next and made little sense. Colin Farrelll mumbles his way through most scenes and looks like he was acting in a different movie. I believe if there was one more lover's romp in the long grass scene I would have surely thrown up. Throughout the film the characters thoughts were audible but they often didn't relate to what was on the screen at the time.
Overall a simple story dragged out to over two hours and filled out with some pretty imagery and very boring dialogue is no way to entertain today's movie audiences. I coudn't recommend this to anyone.