I have had this movie sitting on a hard drive for quite a while. After reading a gushing Guardian review some time ago I acquired it and put it aside for a future watch.
I sat down to give it a go last night, and was tremendously disappointed. The pacing of the film is painfully slow, and you are forced to sit through extended scenes of cars driving... slowly....driving... slowly along dark roads.
There is a bit of atmosphere to the film, but given how low key everything is the picture has to be saved by the characters, the dialogue or the story. In a bland film such as this, the dialogue must be razor sharp, the characters must be mesmeric, or the plot has to be intriguing. Sadly, at least in the first forty minutes, there is nothing of note in the dialogue. The odd moment raises a chuckle, but it is nowhere near enough to hold your interest. Its just ambling along, seemingly going nowhere and its very hard to stay engaged.
Admittedly I was quite tired when watching this film, but absolutely nothing about it stirred me from my daze, it was just uniformly uneventful and nothing else made up for this. I gave it roughly forty minutes and my girlfriend and I agreed we had both seen enough.
A disappointing 4/10.
I sat down to give it a go last night, and was tremendously disappointed. The pacing of the film is painfully slow, and you are forced to sit through extended scenes of cars driving... slowly....driving... slowly along dark roads.
There is a bit of atmosphere to the film, but given how low key everything is the picture has to be saved by the characters, the dialogue or the story. In a bland film such as this, the dialogue must be razor sharp, the characters must be mesmeric, or the plot has to be intriguing. Sadly, at least in the first forty minutes, there is nothing of note in the dialogue. The odd moment raises a chuckle, but it is nowhere near enough to hold your interest. Its just ambling along, seemingly going nowhere and its very hard to stay engaged.
Admittedly I was quite tired when watching this film, but absolutely nothing about it stirred me from my daze, it was just uniformly uneventful and nothing else made up for this. I gave it roughly forty minutes and my girlfriend and I agreed we had both seen enough.
A disappointing 4/10.