Soundtrack Ruins the Movie

Rating: 2/10 (14 January 2016)

I don't write movie reviews very often so believe me, it has to be something that really stands out to make me write at all.
This could have been a great movie. It has great visual effects, great acting, good story line, and more. However, the sounds were horrible. This has to be the worst music I have ever heard in a movie. There were times in the movie where the sounds were so annoying that I had to cover my ears to be able to watch the movie. At one point the screeching sounds where so ear piercing that I was just about to walk out of the theater had it not changed. Other times I could barely understand the actors talking because background sound was stepping over their voices.
The worst part about the background sounds and music was that it just continued on and on throughout the movie. It just never seemed to stop! What was supposed to be the natural sounds of the forest was also extremely loud and out of balance. I don't know why the normal sounds of nature were amplified so much but the ones in this movie were certainly not natural.
I don't see how anyone could give this a high rating. Maybe they watched with their ears plugged. How it got so many nominations is beyond me. Just goes to show that politics also has a hand in the Oscars.