2/10
Devoid of reality
22 October 2022
The acting: Everybody except for Christoph Waltz and Willem Dafoe chose cheap smooth accents for their roles, and tried to "fake it til they made it", but it just looked like they didn't care about acting properly.

Waltz and Dafoe held presence of mind, a sense of reality, consequences, survival instinct etc well.

The camera work often showed zoomed in faces talking smooth - completely missing body language drama, size differences, etc.

Editing often lingered too long on scenes that should have been moved on from with quick pace. The feel of many fast paced scenes were destroyed. Slow motion was added into a horse riding scene shot from a distance, but it's shot as if it's in real-time.

The Writing of the people you were supposed to care about made them look like soulless egomaniacs or general villains. No clear distinction between good guys and bad guys. No one to care about in the film. No reason to watch to see what happens.
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