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Title: Engaging, but best taken with a pot of coffee.
Review: The movie is a long one, and it has the feeling of a TV miniseries due to it's manifold segways from disparate situation to situation. The director doesn't seemed concerned with the fact that the movie seems to be contantly roving. Good performances and the story was interesting.I'd like to gripe about the fact that the soundtrack, although impressive, was not remixed to keep the vocals either subdued, or more preferably removed completely. It causes some aggravating moments where you're not sure what you're supposed to be focusing on, and makes this seem even more removed from conventional cinematography.If this is rereleased onto DVD I hope they remaster the sound to accomodate this. Also, I think this movie would be best cut into two or three parts. This would make a good TV series-in fact it seems tailored for it.
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