A film that looks great but ...

Rating: 7/10 (16 January 2016)

This film takes to long to reach the end, and when it does you have to wonder if you really care that it did. It begins brilliantly. The landscape is stunning and the attempt at conveying mayhem through a style of cinematography akin to realism makes the action sequences real spectacles. There is a breathless energy to the opening half hour. Its just when the plot is established it simply begins to feel laboured and predictable. The locations are visually stunning and it was this aspect of the film that I found most engaging. Your enjoyment of the film really depends on your capacity to be interested in the principle theme which is revenge. Once the fuse has been lit for this eventual outcome it just seems to go through the motions until this is finally realised. Overall the film looks great it just takes to long to reveal to little.