It's rare that I don't manage to see a film through, especially one that was nominated for awards but this was just agonisingly dull. Nothing happened within the first half hour to engage the audience or to give them any reason to connect with the characters. It seemed a self-indulgent exercise where any attempt to provide an interesting/exciting story was sacrificed for the sake of "actors doing some award-winning acting". Why would we care about any of these protagonists? As a script writer, you should surely realise when the first 30 minutes can be accurately summarised in two words "they meet". What a massive waste of time and such a disappointment.
