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Title: Allegorical ho-hum
Review: Slow and not much blood, not that there's anything wrong with that. Only that if you're weighing whether to sit through 2 and a half hours of a movie, you'd prefer to go in with no illusions. This movie is an allegorical story that in both its substance and form deconstructs the illusions we live by. The plot is slow and misshapen, punctuated by sparse moments of triumph and terror and manipulations and murders, and fragile loves across the void. The cardboard, threadbare quality to the characters is undoubtedly part of the allegory. The driven, ruthless man without illusions would seem to have the advantage, but for what? A great question that humanity wrestles with. This film contributes no insight about that, however. It will be remembered only for the iconic line in the final scene, a line that itself is out of place.Daniel Day Lewis shines.
