The flavor is good, but there's not a lot of meat on the bone.
If you want dialogue, this isn't for you - which lead, for me, to a lack of empathy for any of the four main characters. Everyone does a lot of quiet emoting but there's a lot less time spend on their interaction than on the gorgeous long shots. I believe the kitchen help, who are rarely in the movie, have more lines than the main characters.
This is a quiet movie with grand, beautiful, lingering shots of the isolated landscape. There are also plenty of lingering close-ups of Cumberbatchs' sweaty, dirty, somewhat psychopathic face.
By the end of the movie my reaction was - "so what."
If you want dialogue, this isn't for you - which lead, for me, to a lack of empathy for any of the four main characters. Everyone does a lot of quiet emoting but there's a lot less time spend on their interaction than on the gorgeous long shots. I believe the kitchen help, who are rarely in the movie, have more lines than the main characters.
This is a quiet movie with grand, beautiful, lingering shots of the isolated landscape. There are also plenty of lingering close-ups of Cumberbatchs' sweaty, dirty, somewhat psychopathic face.
By the end of the movie my reaction was - "so what."