The Gist: A captive warrior attacks his captors and flees. He then goes on a journey of discovery with the boy who helped him escape. He’ll join up with a group of crusaders but what they will find won’t be exactly what they expected.
As anyone who follows my blog knows, I hate trailers because they are full of spoilers. I usually just glance over critics’ reviews and check out ratings from aggregate sites like Rotten Tomatoes or IMDb. The system works for me. The movies I pick turn out to be what I expected the vast majority of the time. This time, it didn’t work.
This movie was, at best, an incomprehensible amalgam of images with a haunting soundtrack and some good acting. How was the script? I can’t really speak to that because there are maybe 100 words uttered in the whole movie. Does it make sense? Hardly.
When the movie was over, as I often do, I checked out the trailer. I was aghast to see that in those 3 minutes or so they had condensed every spoken scene and the most alluring images. I can’t imagine the countless other viewers who were duped like me into viewing a movie that looks like it came out of the mind of a man who had evidently dropped acid.
The Bottom Line: I saw some impressive reviews of this film too and don’t understand where they’re coming from. Did we see the same film? I’m tempted to say I just didn’t get its message, but at some point I have to draw the line. The movie is incredibly slow, it has almost no spoken dialogue to clear things up (and I loved The Artist, so it’s not like I need dialogue, I just need clarity!!), it’s built in sections that almost start over with each segment, and it just plainly doesn’t make sense. Skip it!
Grade: 2
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