From the get go it is far too self-consciously portentious, with nary a bit of humor to lighten it up. It feels more like an adaptation of memes from gaming than a cinematic version of a novel, much less a living, breathing movie. And exactly what is the moral stance we are supposed to hold on the war anyway? I love Hans Zimmer but his score is not in the emotional service of anything meaningful.
By objective standards the visuals are quite good, but in The Age of Sora they no longer seem so creatively cutting-edge either.
The crowd mostly seemed bored, and I saw a lot of people looking at the time on their phones. Was there any line from the movie that anyone is going to repeat?
In terms of expressing the power of cinema, or captivating the viewer with a sense of magic, I’ll take that Robert Bresson film about the donkey any day of the week.
If you read the major reviews carefully, a lot of them feel the same way, though understandably they don’t want to crush Hollywood’s future economic prospects in the bud.
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