...but that's OK because it was a belabored movie.
The flick goes through enormous exertions to incorporate images and scenarios that describe a complex plot; one that includes time travel, of all things.
And those exertions are truly impressive! I have to say that it sort of made the first half of the flick kinda hard to sit through. Some folks are sustained by cops-'n'-robbers action, and I'm not; I have to start seeing something indicative of a key to the mystery of a flick that would otherwise cautiously cloak it's mysteries: This flick was overcautious (I thought) in this regard.
And I guess I should just get down to the issues I have with the message of the movie.
And it's pretty easy to do this without spoiling, I think.
It's this: In the end, the message wasn't really satisfying. I expect a flick like this that seems to want to dangle realpolitik before us to shed light.
And I don't think this flick sheds light. It actually seems to want to say something about threats to sustainable republican self-governance, but it winds up being a distraction from these all-important things.
I give the flick the few stars I give it because it does try very hard to say something, and even something it deems important. While doing a few things artfully, the thing is held back by what the writers and producers must have imagined to be a kind of caginess, but which only winds up being in service to a dissatisfying take on political movements and/or confusion/ignorance.
The flick goes through enormous exertions to incorporate images and scenarios that describe a complex plot; one that includes time travel, of all things.
And those exertions are truly impressive! I have to say that it sort of made the first half of the flick kinda hard to sit through. Some folks are sustained by cops-'n'-robbers action, and I'm not; I have to start seeing something indicative of a key to the mystery of a flick that would otherwise cautiously cloak it's mysteries: This flick was overcautious (I thought) in this regard.
And I guess I should just get down to the issues I have with the message of the movie.
And it's pretty easy to do this without spoiling, I think.
It's this: In the end, the message wasn't really satisfying. I expect a flick like this that seems to want to dangle realpolitik before us to shed light.
And I don't think this flick sheds light. It actually seems to want to say something about threats to sustainable republican self-governance, but it winds up being a distraction from these all-important things.
I give the flick the few stars I give it because it does try very hard to say something, and even something it deems important. While doing a few things artfully, the thing is held back by what the writers and producers must have imagined to be a kind of caginess, but which only winds up being in service to a dissatisfying take on political movements and/or confusion/ignorance.