Beautiful Fairy-Tale, with bad middle part

Rating: 7/10 (28 February 2018)

The acting is superb, the direction and visuals are great and the storyline is as mysterious as it is compelling and beautiful to watch. The beginning is great and the ending is great. But what holds Shape of Water back from being a truly great film are the middle 40 minutes. They just drag, the storytelling doesn't make any sense and the sex scenes seem awkward as heck. I mean, why did they have to fill this time?
Sadly, it took me out of the movie, because everything else was great. Therefore I would call The Shape Of Water a good movie, but not something that deserves 13 oscars or so: 7/10