Overrated

Rating: 5/10 (22 July 2008)

Very weak screenplay with little to create real character. The unlucky actors have almost no material and unfortunately must do what the director asks, which is mostly under- or overacting, depending on the scene, almost none of which seems real. The actual dialog, if you can call it dialog, sounds like an attempt at period speech, but is not at all convincing in that regard. Moreover, the musical accompaniment on the soundtrack is obtrusive, distracting, and calls attention to its supposed high-mindedness. The whole enterprise seems to be the product of a director who, like the characters in the story, such as it is, has gone off the deep end with rather high self regard. The rating this film has received on this site is inexplicable, except to say that the majority of viewers must have been taken in by the excess of pretentious drivel.