Had potential

Rating: 5/10 (18 November 2009)

Let start off by saying that the first half an hour isn't very captivating . It mainly consists of an woman in her thirties having sex with an minor. If you want to keep engaged with the film, then just try and guess the next sex position they'll be in . This is the first Thirty minutes in an nutshell: sex, read, sex ,read, more sex, read, sex, etc. This could be enough for many views to just turn the film off at this point. The first half is immensely boring.
But there still hope. The second half becomes more engaging and turns into the film which you would call a good standard drama. There are some emotionally scenes but there not a lot to say. Its mediocre. Now what confused me the most when watching THE READER was , how on earth did Kate Winslet win an Oscar for this. I'm not criticising here acting as I believe she is an very good actress but here performance in this film was very weak. Still an good performance mind you, but when you know she won an Oscar for it, you expect something more breath taking. The acting was all great, there nothing you can shoot down about it. Mainly it was the direction that was poor as the first half an hour was unnecessary.
The film took a while to take off and when it did it was too late. Poor directing lead to the film being boring and not very captivating . It had potential but sadly it an film that you soon forget when the end credits start rolling