OK, fine, Toni Servillo is very good... but the film itself is really really flat! Full of little details that by no means advance the story whatsoever (the whole episode about the "hit": did we need that much?). You never really care about anything you're seeing: the main character is boring to watch and completely unsympathetic! Definitely not enough to keep your attention going for 2 hours. Not to mention the dialogue, which might look alright once it's subtitled, but for anybody who speaks Italian it is actually trite, fake and just out of this world! Nobody talks like that! And I should probably add one final note about the way it's been show and edited, a mixture of "flashy" devices and "showing off" camera movements that are just too isolated and completely unmotivated all the way through. I'm sorry, it just didn't do it for me (and for most of the people with me watching it on the day!).
Review of The Consequences of Love
