Sorry, at the risk of offending people who enjoyed this movie i found it turgid, slow and quite tedious. I'm sure the title character had a very interesting life, hopefully another movie will be made about her and focuses less on trying to be "hip" (a woeful scene near the end captures what I mean by this statement) and more on producing a stronger narrative about the character. Sorry i can only give it 2 stars.
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4 Reviews
Looking for Grace
(2015)
Dire
23 April 2016
My wife and I endured an hour of "Looking for Grace" before we both conceded that life is too short to waste on crap like this and walked out of the cinema. The acting was tedious, the pacing horrendous, the script a dogs breakfast and it was just a painful experience. The timing of the actors was shocking, it was like watching the early rehearsals of a poorly directed stage play, I think the director was on sleeping tablets at the time of the directing! Australian movies have enough trouble drawing big audiences which is wrong,our movies are up there with the best in the world, this dud however is not in that category and will certainly not attract too many "bums" on seats.
Force of Destiny
(2015)
Slow/plodding/style over substance!
18 October 2015
Warning: Spoilers
A rather long winded/over long affair about the crucial importance of organ donating (amongst other things). We went to this movie with high hopes of something special, alas both my partner and I were looking at our watches long before the end credits came up. The pacing was at a snails pace, the symbolism of life/death thrown at you every few minutes, if I had seen another image of water/rain I was going to go out and buy an umbrella, credit the audience with insight and intelligence please. At times the continuity seemed out of whack as well, was Robert in India with Maya or was this an Indian community in Australia, this made no sense and had no explanation. I realise this was very personal movie for Paul Cox but I think he dropped the ball with one.
Winter Sleep
(2014)
Tedious art House!
9 February 2015
Boring, tedious, a hugely underwhelming experience. This could have been a good movie with a director and an editor who were not asleep at the wheel and knew when enough was enough! Huge unwanted pregnant pauses, moody silences, all the narcissistic art house red flags, on the same par with the equally boring "The tree of Life" from a few years ago! A major disappointment, I was actually looking forward to it but after slogging through the first slower than slow 70 minutes I realized that it was not going to get any better, yet I stayed for till the end, bigger fool I! "Winter Sleep" is an ironic title because it certainly lead me to the land of nod!
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