Long suffering, not only for the actors involved in this film.

Rating: 7/10 (15 May 2011)

Big production, excellent actors --all of them-- big scenery, extremely cold weather, extremely hot weather, lots of suffering by everybody involved during two long hours...(including this viewer), maybe --as many comments remarked-- it's worthy to watch this movie just because of the landscapes, so vast and majestic. That's all right if one watches the projection on a huge screen, not so impressive at home on a small screen. I don't know, it seemed to me like a lot of effort for not a great deal of a movie experience. We have seen this plot so many times before! in black and white, in color, in mono and in stereo and finally gets to be quite repetitive. Watching the locations and time of the year --hard winter in one place, hottest summer in another-- one tends to imagine that the actors involved in this project didn't have a lot of fun under those circumstances. I hope they got well paid for the service rendered.