Beautiful, tedious and empty.

Rating: 3/10 (26 January 2020)

I'm still not half way through the movie but my mind is pretty much made up. I think the cinematography is wonderful, I like the costumes, the acting. I actually like a lot of things. The only thing completely misses the mark for me is the script. It falls victim to the same thing that so many other potentially good stories do; the whole central conflict is dependent on people acting completely unreasonable. The whole plot would just crumble if people actually behaved and talked like people do or did back in the early 20th century. I'm also not sure how I feel about the score. It's almost as if it's overcompensating for the lack of anything interesting happening. Suspenseful music often keeps you on the edge of your seat for the entire scene and you expect something awful or grand or surprising to happen. And then nothing ever happens. You begin feeling betrayed by it. Like it never delivers on its promise of action or drama. Then the movie just seems to lull on forever.