A disappointment. Three wasted hours. What's the point of such a talented cast, excellent cinematography, make up etc., for a long, tiresome, and poorly told story?
The impression left is that this story should have been told in an 40-episode series, each episode lasting an hour, over 5 seasons. Instead, everything was condensed into a frenetic pace within 3 hours. Names and events were rushed, dozens of characters thrown in the audience's face, without adequate character development, cuts and transitions were too quick and too frequent, there was an overload of information, everything happened too fast.
Nolan has incredible talent and knows how to make cinema at a very high level, he has proven that before. But unfortunately he lost his touch here, in my limited perception as a layperson who loves good stories that are well told.
The impression left is that this story should have been told in an 40-episode series, each episode lasting an hour, over 5 seasons. Instead, everything was condensed into a frenetic pace within 3 hours. Names and events were rushed, dozens of characters thrown in the audience's face, without adequate character development, cuts and transitions were too quick and too frequent, there was an overload of information, everything happened too fast.
Nolan has incredible talent and knows how to make cinema at a very high level, he has proven that before. But unfortunately he lost his touch here, in my limited perception as a layperson who loves good stories that are well told.