The reason I didn't like it was because it lacked the essential components of a good piece of work - character and story to name two. And it looked like a good piece of work. This art of persuasive appearance is true of the work of a whole generation, who have mastered the trappings of things but not the center. What has happened, I think, not just in movies but in books, theater, architecture, even government, is that technique has replaced meaning.
Technique is so polished, so expert, it becomes meaning.
This is filmmaking, a film made from the outside. In what other era could Andrew Lloyd Weber be hailed as a genius than one in which songs are made, rather than felt. Many books have a center because there will always be authentic writers. But too many are made, as if with Lego parts, so much exposition, so much violence, so much sex. Books are acquired, not edited.