Tedious and long, the gruesome and violent scenes do not make up for it. Rather they just feel like effect-seeking desperate attempts of making things interesting. Unfortunately it is everything but...
There could have been much better acting and fewer minutes, but the fault lies with focusing on the less fascinating aspects of the islands cult.
What the viewer would like to see is not another frowny faced dirty man claiming knowledge, but more of the botanic deity and perhaps how it was captured. That would have given it a timeless dignity, much like the Grecian mythology and it's stories of dealings between deities and humans.
In the film's context a prosaic earth-bound religion would have meant much more of an sensible anchoring to the story than worshipping and praying to the holy father and his celestial power.
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